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Struggling

post #1 of 4
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I've read tons of GD books and have been totally committed to gentle discipline and things have been going really well with ds until the last month. He'll be 3 in a month and he is suddenly becoming so unbelievably difficult. I am starting to feel like such a failure as a parent. It seems like all that reading I've done is getting me nowhere. Lately I am constantly at a loss of how to deal with ds and it is getting really frustrating.

How do you hang on to gd when it appears to no longer be working? Why does this parenting thing have to be so flipping hard? I would give anything for this to be natural and intuitive like it was when he was a baby. I don't have time to spend hours turning to experts to tell me how to parent- I need to know what to do in the moment and lately I feel like I never do.
post #2 of 4
nak
i'm in a similar position.
3 is more than challenging.
post #3 of 4
3 years old, enough said!

Hang on, 4 has been a dream for both my kids after a VERY challenging year 3 in totally different ways (one clingy and crying, the other raging).

Find ways, especially as I see you are expecting a baby, to self-nurture.
post #4 of 4
In the moment- think, how would you want your child to react? Then, react that way.

Experts shmexperts.
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