Most of us have days when parenting "works"; when we show up as the loving parent that we want to be while still setting appropriate limits. There are other days though (when we are stressed), when we can hear our own parent's voices (when they were stressed) coming out of our own mouths. That is when we wonder, "What is it with this child?" or hear those internal voices criticizing our own ability to parent or even be a reasonable human being. Those are not the "parenting moments" that we look forward to. But we all have them.
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