'I’d rather be remembered as someone who didn’t point the finger or make another parent feel worse than they already do about something their kids had done.”
I caught myself passing judgment on a teenager the other day. A friend was explaining how her daughter was struggling with anxiety and had been calling her mother at work constantly, feeling so overwhelmed with homework that she wasn't doing it.
Friends and family started asking me what her problem was and told me I needed to “make” her do more. Not only did I feel incredibly judged, but I was also frustrated. Trying to make my teen do something she didn’t want to or wasn’t mentally capable of felt like a losing battle. For both of us. I thought about how in the past if someone told me about a kid who got caught smoking pot, vaping or drinking, my mind automatically judged their parenting and their child. Then, my kids got caught doing some of these things, and the last thing I needed was for people to judge my kids and me.
All of those reactions felt like judgment. While it’s very easy to say you should parent in a way that’s best for you and your family and ignore what others think, it’s quite another to be able to do it.
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