138 sats \ 1 reply \ @ablunderfilledlife 31 Jan \ on: What shocked you about parenting? meta
Sorry to hear about your daughter being sick. Hope she gets better soon. The vomit/change clothes and sheets back-and-forth can be pretty defeating.
As for what has shocked me so far:
- How little sleep you can operate on when you have to. I felt this most truly during the infancy stages.
- How kid's development skyrockets while leaving experiences rather than during them. For example, whenever my kids' cousins visit for a couple of days, it's not until just after they leave that my kids start saying or trying new things.
- How different boy and girl temperaments really are.
- How resilient they have made me. Adversities that I have experienced would have shaken me to my core before my kids, but they shifted my perspective so much that as long as they are okay, so am I.
I am very much enjoying the struggle :)
Tell me more about it. My baby girl (the second born) is way more feisty than my son. I think he will be “bullied” by her in the future. Is it the same thing with yours?
The part about children expressing new vocab when they are leaving is intriguing. My son uses new vocab when I least expect him to, but I haven’t noticed this trend yet. Maybe my eyes have not been opened yet!
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