Confessions of Parenting a Toddler.

So yesterday, we had A DAY. Conley has shifted into this phase of pushing boundaries. I was so frustrated with him yesterday - I could scream! (Actually, I ran outside and did just that. )

I know that toddlers push boundaries as apart of their development and I know all the ways I should have reacted to him. Yet I didn’t react and respond in the way I should have. 

Here’s the thing. Even when we educate ourselves on parenting - read all the books, listen to all the podcasts, and learn all the things we still don’t always get it right. And if you’re like me you might even have years of experience working with children and practicing Montessori - and still I don’t get it right! 

Will I ever have the perfect responses and reactions to my child? No. And that’s okay! 

Give yourself some grace, learn from your mistakes, and restart for the next day. Children learn so much about life when they watch us going through it in all in all of it’s imperfections. 

No amount of parenting knowledge or experience will make you a perfect parent. 

Embrace that. Because...

“Our children don’t need a perfect parents - they need real parents.” - @raisedgood