Growth as a parent

So last night I had one of those Terri­ble Horri­ble No Good Very Bad parent/child exchan­ges. BC and I just couldn’t seem to work things out. It was an emo­tio­nally grue­ling exchange which left us both sob­bing and exhaus­ted. It made me doubt my skills as a mom. Did I do the right thing? Should I have hand­led it dif­fe­rently? I’m not sure. But did I do the best I could? Yes.

Thank­fully when BC woke up this mor­ning, he came run­ning out of his room, smile on face, straight into my arms. Thank good­ness chil­dren are so very resilient.

Hope­fully BC’s get­ting close to the end of this new defiance phase and all can go back to nor­mal in our house.

I wrote about our exchange over at SVMB today.

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  1. Uncle J said,

    May 28, 2008 @ 11:11 pm

    I can offi­cially not be as good as a parent as you are. Heck, I am only a mediocre Uncle. BC and eClaire are truly bles­sed to have someone like you and hubby in their life.… espe­cially in times like these.

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