I am finding parenting very difficult. I find it hard to say 'no' and hate seeing my children upset in any way even if it is for their own good.
I was having a chat with my mother on the phone today and just a general moan about my dd's awful bedtime/sleeping habits - a topic I usually avoid because she disagrees with co-sleeping and me breastfeeding 10 month old dd in the night. I am struggling at the moment though and was looking for a little support.
She told me I have to toughen up - just stop feeding the baby at night, put her in her own room and let her cry it out and that she would learn after a few nights.
As an example she said when I was 2 (I had 2 younger siblings before I was 24 months old, they aren't twins!) and the new baby came home I started playing up and was wetting the bed on purpose so one night she smacked me and put me back in the wet bed and I never did it again.
I have tears in my eyes all day for the 2 year old me.
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Struggling with parenting - not surprised after what my mother told me today.
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suiledonn · 05/10/2009 15:07
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