I asked my Facebook fans what they wanted me to write about. Almost unanimously they said “parenting struggles!”
I sure have plenty of those.
Now to choose which to write about!
My frustration with my inability to stick to a routine?
How about how much I hate bedtime?
Then there is whether to hold Lizzie back from kindergarten one more year.
I could also write page after page about how much I loathe mommy guilt.
Parenting really sucks sometimes. Fits, fights, screams and filth.
What I really want, is to only have like one struggle at a time. But with 3 small kids that is as impossible as keeping a goat in its pen! So I handle one crisis at a time, fighting fires before others rage out of control.
I know that solving the schedule issue will resolve lots of other underlying issues. Soon as I find reliable child care, I can begin enforcing the same daily routines. Please let this happen soon!
What is your biggest parenting struggle right now?
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Right now my biggest struggle is my daughter. I love her to bits and pieces, and would go to the ends of the earth and back for her, but these tween years are killing me. Everything is a fight. I ask her to do non-negotiable things (showers, etc…) and it often ends in eye rolling and door slamming. I tell her she looks good in blue and she changes to red. The mood swings are horrible. I am compassionate, and she acts like I know nothing about anything.
I can’t even blog about this struggle because she told her teachers about my blog, so they all follow me now! Ha ha ha!
Praying for you to have some childcare back up soon! I <3 you!