How do you do this?

[LittlemissMama67]

How on earth do you gentle parent an autistic toddler who is non verbal, and dosnt seem to understand or comprehend anything you say?

I'm slowly losing the will to live. I adopted gentle parenting practices with my 7 year old and I love it, I feel really in control of my responses and emotions and it's a wonderful tool, but it just dosnt seem to work with my daughter. I'm 7 months pregnant and find myself on a short fuse and with very little patience and that's not the kind of parent I want to be, it's just so hard when you're trying to reason with the unreasonable 😭😭

Hi @LittlemissMama67 maybe better to post this in the Parenting section rather than Pregnancy? 🙂

You need to parent in response to their individual needs. Obviously what worked for your older child isn't working. Your autistic child needs different strategies.

I didn't even realise Id done that, I'm frazzled 🫠

apologies xx

I don't know what those strategies are, I was confident as a mother and suddenly I feel like I'm drowning and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing