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Beating kids vs. Gentle Parenting… let’s talk 💬🧸

Raising a toddler is a rollercoaster of emotions 😅💞 Being a mom to a soon-to-be 3-year-old boy is tough Some days I’m calm, others I’m questioning everything But we’re learning together. 😩💞

It’s not about them, it’s about the chaos in our own heads sometimes 💭✨ We shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves 💖. #toddlermom #lemon8tea #lemon8challenge #motherhood

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ContagiousOnion

it sure is. my 4 year old.....I love her but oh my gosh the things she puts me through!!! I feel so unstable but I also know its part of her learning her emotions not me actually being unstable. its me teaching her and changing with HER emotions

I love my daughter but we’re in the clingy separation anxiety stage and I NEED sleep. I’m growing her a sibling and I cannot sleep in her crib with her. She needs sleep too and she doesn’t get it at all. Girly will scream even with one of us in there. Cry it out doesn’t work, she just screams for hours without stopping. Parenting is hard.

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