WE SURE MDO NEED ONE…MEN TOO! THESE DAYS!
Our Ellie is the calmest, most relaxed toddler ever. She is agreeable, flexible, rarely in a bad mood.
But sometimes she just wakes up from her nap and needs to cry. Nothing is wrong. She isn’t hungry, she isn’t thirsty. She is just plain cranky.
I let her cry. I hold her, we rock, but I don’t talk, I don’t try to distract her or talk her out of it. I let her go. She cries and squirms and pushes my arms away, and cries some more.
Eventually, she is all cried out. We get ourselves a snack, and all is well.
I’m realizing that we all need those moments.
In fact, I need one right now.
See, Ellie spent last night with us, for the first time. It was wonderful. But. Well. She is used to sleeping in bed with her parents, so she slept between Papa and I…
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Hate to sound like a therapist, but that’s the best advice I would give to anyone. And you’re the “textbook example” of a “perfect parent” with the way you said it.