A Parenting Trap: Comparisons.
Comparisons.
I’m struggling people.
Not in an overt, loud, complaining to the world way.
But a quiet, not sure, hope-I’m-doing-my-best way.
It’s with my children.
How do you as a parent, compliment and push each one without seeming to slight another?
Or how do you not seems insincere, over praising one to make up with praising another in their presence?
I hate to over think things.
But I do it constantly.
With two children in the house now, who are in constant competition with each other, this comparison thing has been something I think about (or over think) too much.
With so much childhood, parenting skills — praise your children or your doing them harm — floating around in my head, I don’t feel natural.
I wish parenting was natural. And btw, competition is not for me either.
Linking up with Jana@jana’s thinking place.
This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
- Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
- Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
- Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
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