- The sweet 3-year-old is scary-jealous of the new baby.
- The clingy 5-year-old still uses a bottle and diapers.
- The anxious 8-year-old is suddenly in school-refusal.
- The defiant 12-year-old won't get off the phone.
- The checked-out fifteen-year-old is starting to vape.
Sometimes kids get stuck in a story.
And we parents can too.
- We repeat patterns we swore we never would.
- Gentle parenting isn't working, but raging isn't either.
- We know what we want it all to look like, but it doesn't, and no matter how much well-meaning advice we get, we can't figure out how to meaningfully bridge the gap, and tell a new story.
Abigail Wald
