My son is currently going through a phase where snakes, sharks, and owls are all the first things he says when he meets new people. “Snakes are hunters. Owls are predators.” Not "I like sharks" but they are predators, and “snakes bite with venom and squeeze.” He loves to act it out, too. Open h...
You're bracing for the next meltdown before it's even started.
By the 10th "no," the constant whining, the moment they throw your own words back at you, you're not thinking about scripts or positive parenting anymore. You're thinking, “Is this ever going to get easier?? Is my child always going...
It was the last evening of our 5-day summer trip to the beach. We were out shopping for a souvenir, something small to remember it by. We ended up in a tiny gift shop at the top of a lighthouse, the kind of shop where you have to turn sideways to get down the aisle.
My husband had escorted our ...
I've had the same conversation twice in the past few weeks with two different parents, two very different kids, and the same frustration.
The first flat out said, "I don't like when my kids lie. It makes me really mad. I don't mind if they do something they're not supposed to. We can figure tha...
"I can't pull my phone out and say, ‘Hang on let me check what Dr. Jazmine says I should do in this situation as your mom.'"
“Ain’t that the truth!” I thought as I read one of the survey responses from a fellow TMP Times member.
I’ve also never heard the struggle described so perfectly.
This mo...
Last week I tucked my 8-year-old into bed, kissed her forehead, told her I loved her and I loved her beautiful face, and then said with warmth and sincerity (and a little guilt) “but I don't want to see it again until tomorrow. Stay in your room, please.” She looked up at me and said, without m...
"What do you do when nothing works?"
A mom sent me this question and then gave me the details. Her son was jumping on the bed and her husband told him he'd lose his privilege of being in their room to play. Soon after, the boy proceeded to jump on the couch so they took away another privilege. ...
It's 8pm. Kids are in bed. You're standing in the kitchen and you know you need to go back in.
Maybe you're dreading it because last time you apologized, your kid ended up patting your back saying "it's okay mommy" and you left the room feeling worse than when you walked in.
Maybe you're dreadi...
Girl, I get it. I really do.
You're burned out. You're touched out. You're running on empty most days before the kids even wake up. You're tired of the "mommy mommy mommy" and the "mine mine mine" and the crying and the defiance and the negotiating over things that should not require negotiatio...
I'm tired of parenting content that subtly gaslights parents with messages like "Your child isn't trying to reject you or hurt your feelings."
Yes they are.
Whenever your child blurts out things like "I don't want to play with you anymore" or "I'm not your friend" or "You're a mean mommy", they...
She saw you. You know she did, because for one brief second your eyes locked, and then she turned around and ran straight back to her friends like you weren't even there. 🫠😭🤬
You said her name and then you said it again, with that edge creeping into your voice that you hate hearing come out of y...
I'm writing this from my parent-in-law’s home.
We've been traveling for a few days now and it has been a lot. Flights getting canceled, sleep all off, extended family dynamics doing what extended family dynamics do, and me just trying to parent through all of it in the middle of the chaos.
Then...
