Raise your hand if you’re one of those parents who messes up on the regular. Me too.
Now raise your hand if you’re one of those parents who messes up on the regular and then beats themselves up over it. Me too!
As a mother who’s spent a cool decade replaying her greatest parenting misses on an continual loop each night before falling asleep, I’ve come to the self-preserving conclusion that kids do better with parents who mess up. Not only that, kids do better with parents who mess up and own it. I think I may have even figured out why…[read more]
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I beat myself up on a regular basis. I’ve started blogging about it, and I think it helps. I’ve always admitted when I was wrong (I think). I just have a hard time letting go of the guilt once I’ve done so. I’m really, really human!
Emily, it’s one of the hardest things in the world. I just have to remind myself that guilt isn’t productive but learning from every experience is. Best of luck and please know that you’re not alone!!!
Thanks so much. I sometimes wish kids came with an owner’s manual. This is a link to my most recent guilt-ridden experience if you want to read it. Keep up the great posts!
http://seriouslywritingwoman.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/thems-fightin-words-now-what-did-you-say-again/