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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Folks that have easy kids just to have no idea.[/quote]

100%, they don't get it and they will give you useless advice all day long or look at you with that baffled expression on their faces like they think you must be incompetent to be struggling with an aspect of parenting that has never caused them any issues. It's really frustrating, I totally get you.

No advice, since you said specifically you didn't want it. But I will share some encouragement. This is how we were feeling with evening routine, especially bathing, for... ever it seems. Years. And yes we tried everything -- visual schedules, visual timers, making transitions playful, shifting tasks to help with incentives, everything. But every night was such a slog that I would usually go to bed immediately after my kid because the two hours leading up to it took so much out of me.

However, in the last 6 months it's gotten better. No silver bullet, nothing changed it overnight, I think it's just the things we've been trying finally started working or sinking in or my kid got used to them or something. A lot of our parenting challenges have been like this. It just takes our kid a lot longer to adjust to certain tasks or expectations. But she does get there eventually. It's just incredibly labor intensive for us as parents. And no, people with easy kids just don't get it, they will absolutely assume you are just a bad parent and congratulate themselves for doing it right because they can't conceive of the idea that their kids just have fewer or easier-to-meet needs.[/quote]

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