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[quote=Anonymous]Objectively I know I’m not. I tend to be a glass half empty type of person and I’m working on that in therapy. My kid (8) is generally great, but I keep focusing on what I could have done better. He’s not great at using manners consistently, he doesn’t know how to swim well enough to pass the swim test yet or ride a 2 wheel bike. I know as a parent I should have pushed those things harder (swim & bike—we model and discuss using manners a lot), but there are just some things that have to be lower on the priority totem pole given time and resources.

Today is a beautiful day but DS doesn’t want to go to the pool because all of his friends have their swim bands and he doesn’t and he doesn’t want to practice in front of them understandably. We’ve had a private swim instructor lined up but she’s been unreliable and it’s been tough to find someone else at this point in the summer. We’ve just totally failed on the bike thing though, and DS hasn’t pushed it because it’s hard for him. We need to get him to do things that are hard for him and learn to overcome difficulties.  I just don’t want him to feel left out or left behind due to us not pushing him to learn to do these things.

I’m probably just in a mood, but I feel like others around me have this parenting thing down better than I (we) do. I’m sure that everyone probably feels that way occasionally but I feel it pretty often. I just don’t want to mess it up, especially since we only have one. [/quote]

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