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[quote=Anonymous]It’s annoying and condescending, even if you don’t mean it that way. You’re also forgetting the things like chronic sleep deprivation, being touched out all the time, trying to keep an eye on developmental milestones (which can absolutely be a big issue). My kids are tween and elementary age, so those little kid days are in the past for me, but they were still hard in the moment. The one thing an experienced parent said to me during that phase, which was actually helpful, is that parenting is a marathon, not a sprint, and to pace myself. That it’s hard all the way through, albeit in different ways. That felt both empathic with what I was experiencing at the time and useful in terms of thinking how to parent. It wasn’t the dismissive “just you wait until you have teenagers” crap - it was realistic. It’s stuck with me.[/quote]
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