A Judgment-Free Guide to Stress-Free Parenting #noshameparenting™
“My children have spent 50 hours a week in childcare since they were 3 months old. The women and men caring and educating my children see them more than I do. There are many days that I’m sad we don’t see each other more, but I feel so fortunate to have incredible people helping raise my kids while I GET to go to a job that I feel passionate about…
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“I shifted my work hours in order to leave by 4 pm each day to pick up my son from school and get dinner on the table by 6 pm. I was concerned that coworkers would think I was just leaving early, not realizing I was one of the first in the office each morning. Hearing that President Obama dropped everything for dinner with his family at 6:30 pm gave…
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“My four year old is in a stage (I hope!) in which she cries, whines or screams anytime we ask her to do something. Yesterday, after a long day of being cooped up indoors, she starts crying when I ask her to clean up a spill with a towel (instead of a paper towel). At wit’s end, I respond, rather, uh, energetically, ‘Why don’t you go live with Grandma?! You…
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“There are times I have to travel for work and times I choose to travel to spend some QT with my husband or friends. For the most part, people are very supportive of my traveling, but there have been comments like ‘I can’t believe you’d leave her for x amount of days’ or ‘I could never leave my kid overnight at this age.’ Like Daniel Tiger says, you can have…
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“After 24 hours of labor and then a c-section, staying up overnight to breastfeed a newborn felt impossible. The nurses offered formula, and I was grateful. Then I got home to Brooklyn and was inundated with judgment. Didn’t I know I was ruining my supply by doing a 2 am formula feed? Sigh. Apparently my supply was just fine, bc I breastfed my first kid for 16 months. After having…
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