#positive-parenting

#positive-parenting

I intentionally tell my kids all the things that I wanted to hear: I'm proud of you, I love you, etc. I hug them frequently. We talk about their feelings a lot. Although I still struggle to talk about my own emotions with them, I do try to open up. I do worry that I was pretty emotionally shut down in the early years of their life, and probably did cause them some emotional neglect in that regard.

"I can honestly tell you when it was time to move, she was like, 'Time to go!' and we would just box everything and roll to the next place, she always did it with a smile on her face."