Reply to S/O. What’s the worst thing you do as a parent?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "S/O. What’s the worst thing you do as a parent? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Mine are ADHD/neurodivergence/anxiety-related (mine, not my kid's-- I think she is neurotypical).

Being irritable and reactive and being obsessive/nagging my kid too much. Work on this all the time, and hate it, but it's a challenge.

Being distracted and antsy.

And this one is a big one, but less my issue than a combined issue for me and DH, who also has ADHD...

Sleep.

We both have time blindness, which I have worked on and which doesn't impact him TREMENDOUSLY anymore, except for at bedtime. I swear it takes an hour+ from the time the kid gets upstairs to in bed. And all she has to do is wipe down her body, brush teeth, put on PJs and one or two other little things. 10-15 minutes if she concentrated but didn't rush. But no-- it takes forever. And we are both there the entire time.

It makes me crazy, and if I leave it to DH, he is allowing one more thing and one more thing and ooh, look, shiny, and he's picking up his guitar (!!!) at 10:27 pm. Kid probably does need less sleep than average but also gets significantly less sleep than she needs 3-4 days/week. It's a struggle because he doesn't want to bark at her as I'm sometimes prone to (fair!) but also doesn't start earlier and doesn't enforce boundaries most of the time. Kid isn't even being manipulative, just the normal, ooh, I forgot to do this thing, I just need to finish x, let's get into this conversation, etc etc.

We obviously need to come together, but it's less that we are actually working at cross purposes and more that we are both tired and out ADHD tendencies are out in full force. We absolutely need to fix this though, because kid has night terrors and such probably related to going to bed too late. :([/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics