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#parenting

Emotional validation happens when your parents see what you are feeling, acknowledge your feelings, and seem to understand why you are having them. Just like adults, children's feelings are the deepest, most personal, biological expression of who they are. In order to feel seen, understood, and heard, a child must feel that their feelings are seen, understood, and heard. What happens when you feel seen, understood, and heard as a child?

The mom who made the video clarifies in the comments that her child is 3 years old, and the youngest of the neighbor's three children is 4. Honestly, the comments are pretty divided, with some parents firmly taking this mom's side and others telling her to loosen up.

"I think it's really important that that atmosphere is created at home. You have to have that warmth, that feeling of safety, security, love," William told Levy. "That all has to be there, and that was certainly part of my childhood."

Vee Whitaker - a mother in Georgia - took her 8-month-old daughter Montana to a café when the little girl started screaming. A customer asked Whitaker to leave, saying the baby's screams were hurting his sensitive ears. He told Whitaker if she couldn't keep her infant quiet, she should leave.

I am a recovering alcoholic and need advice on how to support my son, who is 11 and autistic. I am three months sober with the help of rehab and AA, but my drinking became heavy over the last two years (I was sober for the first six years of my son's life). Towards the end, my drinking was 24/7 and my son has sadly seen me out of control and desperately unhappy. He developed a sense of responsibility, that he was the only person who could stop me drinking (by physically removing bottles), which I feel utterly ashamed about.

Turned out his aunt was his actual birth mother, who had kids with his father too before he was born, but who had passed away in a house fire. The mother who raised him was completely sterile and, in fact, had a hysterectomy at a very young age. He was in complete shock, but said it made sense how close everyone was in the house, despite keeping all the adult stuff behind closed doors.

In episode four of season three, which aired on Friday, William gave Levy a tour of Windsor Castle, and the pair chatted over a drink at a pub in the area. During their conversation, William opened up to Levy about his royal life, chatting about how he and Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, parent their children and how his wife and father's health problems have affected him.

Most students, when they're struggling mid-semester, are feeling overwhelmed but don't actually need advice or solutions. This goes against our instinct as parents-we want to solve the problem and eradicate their pain. Don't do it. They already know what to do; they're just struggling to do it. This is where hard, messy lessons occur. Instead, validate how they're feeling. Don't agree with them; just acknowledge how hard this time is for them. Listen with the intent of understanding rather than solving.

My 12-year-old son goes to an after-school program oriented around healthy living. They learn to cook vegetarian dishes, do yoga and meditation, and learn about various topics such as healthy sexuality and substance abuse. I'm extremely passionate about all of these things and was delighted to hear that my son was enjoying it as well when he started going two years ago, especially because he had never particularly liked sports or other extracurriculars.

Tom insists that Cyrus is a "toxic male influence" on the boys. I can't tell if this is as big an issue as he claims, and I don't know what's right. Cyrus and I have been together for three years. He's loving but more conventional. We share the same core values and votes. He's kind and generous: he'll stop for a stranger with a flat on the freeway, he'll break up a homophobic incident in a bar.

she's been doing what she calls "book reporting" them. "We go on a journey together and we decide to research what that means, where it comes from, why it happened, and where it stemmed from," she explains. She then says her sons are already beginning to understand how everything in culture is interconnected and that "Mom, it's not that deep" is actually very rarely true.

Amidst the sleepless nights, hospital stays, medication dosing, and screaming into the pillow, I cared for the plant (and my son), thinking, in my delusion, that if Vasily were going to live, my son would, too. A revived Vasily stayed behind in New York City with a friend. "The friends we leave behind will stay our friends, and in new places we'll make new friends" I told my son at the time.

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My husband and I both grew up in the same small town in Southern Illinois. I distinctly remember visiting relatives in the Chicago suburbs and dreaming of when I could live somewhere with so much to see and do. Though I did enjoy my childhood, growing up in the country and spending hours outside, I craved something different for my own children.

"My daughter's dad and I really pride ourselves in the fact that we have not fought in front of her since she was like six months old. She's almost five now, and we don't talk crap on the other parent in front of her," TikTok mom, angelehlers_, explained. "So, she has no idea why we wouldn't be friends, why we wouldn't all hang out. Like she just genuinely just thinks like we're all just like friends, like her best friends,"

I think for my kids, they were asking me, I was telling them about adoption, and I thought, 'How do you tell that story to your kids?'

I'm a dad to two boys (13 and 11), and I just divorced their mother a couple of months ago. We're currently all still living in the same house together, but I'm going to move out at the end of the calendar year. I'm writing because I know that my ex-wife has poisoned the mind of my oldest son to the point where he barely talks to me and meanwhile gushes over his mom.

I had unbelievable nausea my first trimester of pregnancy. As I opened the fridge and experienced the gut punch that was a wave of nausea in response to the smell of food, I hurled over and said, "This sucks. I can't wait until I am out of this first trimester." "Just wait. You will miss just having nausea when you experience all of the pain of your third trimester."

Parenting a toddler is basically a high-stakes negotiation with a tiny, emotionally unstable roommate who doesn't understand logic. But when it comes to chaos? Lord have mercy. I'm shaking just thinking about it. One wrong move, and you're in a full-blown crisis over the color of a cup or the fact that you dared to peel their banana "the wrong way."

The wife's on one side with her side table, and the husband's on the other side, and it's great when you've got all three kids, but all of a sudden the kids get too big. They're out of the bed,

It's a popular piece of advice: You have to get out of your comfort zone to grow. You have to try hard things, you have to push yourself, you have to work really hard to be the best version of you that you can be. But with this narrative, it feels like there's a very thin line between growth and causing unnecessary pressure and stress, especially on our kids. Whether it's learning to ride a bike without training wheels or wanting your kid to study more for an upcoming test, parents often feel stuck between wanting to push their child to be and do their best and not wanting to be another loud voice in their kid's ears, stressing them out and pushing them over the edge.

So when somebody sees the dance video, what they're going to do is they're going to see, and then it's going to go through all of these sensations: the way that they see, hear, feel, touch, smell, all of that. And it's going to go through all of their own past experiences. So everything that they've ever been told about dancing and themselves, it'll go through what they believe about the world, if they think dancing is good or bad or silly or stupid.