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[quote=Anonymous][b]Further, no parent’s exhaustion level will (or should) be taken into account. “It’s not in your child’s best interest, Mom, unless you’re really tired and then it won’t hurt your child at all”.[/b][i]

This.

I posted earlier with the same basic sentiment.

Two things can be true at the same time.

"Because it's necessary*" does not make a thing okay or healthy for a child.

Again, IF IT IS NECESSARY, then it's NECESSARY!

And just because a thing [i]isn't[/i] really okay or healthy for a child doesn't mean you shouldn't do it! Maybe it's necessary on the whole, for your own ability to keep your job, your exhaustion level, whatever.

But that doesn't make it healthy for the child.

And on and on and on.

Sometimes you consider this and realize maybe there's a win-win solution that at least makes things healthiER for the child and allows you to keep your job and sanity. Sometimes you say, hey, this is a sucky situation and so I'm doing something suboptimal, even quite suboptimal, to survive. You don't have to beat yourself up, but you also don't have to make it "perfectly fine."

Learn to live with contradictions.

*if it really is-- and maybe it is!
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