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Does Your Kid Make You Feel Like You Can Do Nothing Right?

Last updated on: November 17, 2017 at 7:40 pm   by Shaunti Feldhahn

Does Your Kid Make You Feel Like You Can Do Nothing Right? 2017-11-17T19:40:51+00:00 Shaunti Feldhahn

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I didn’t totally avoid him (after all, we were living in the same house), but I did my thing and he did his. I didn’t go out of my way to seek resolution. (After all, I had already tried that and it hadn’t worked). So I waited.

If he needed something, he had to come to me.

And I continued to wait. (Difficult for me as a mom who wants to solve the problem now.)

One evening as the two of us were together standing in the kitchen with no one else home, the words came tumbling out of his mouth. He shared his fears and his assumptions about how I was handling a situation.

I listened — I mean really listened.

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