I am 1000% the problem. I love my son but I hate normal child behaviors. I get overstimulated by things that are natural and developmental for them. Like stop touching everything, why do you need to touch everything I’m doing if I’m doing an art project he wants to do it to. Like I just want my own time and space but that’s not his fault he’s 3.
2026-04-05 00:03:30
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Champagne (it’s my real name) :
Yes—and also I think…sometimes the reason we feel like we need to correct their normal child behavior is because we weren’t allowed to be annoying kids. So we feel like it needs correction.
2026-04-05 16:26:05
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Perla :
I also feel like there is so much focus on who we want to be as parents, not what kind of parenting the child needs! No child should have the “same parents” because they will always be different, even as siblings. Gentle parenting works om gentle children, not every child! My son for example, I can forget gentle parenting methods, im not harsh, but very authoritative and firm. While I can be gentle during night time, during the day when he has energy I need to be strict and firm!
2026-06-09 14:03:35
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Hannah Gash :
I heard someone once say “is what your kids are doing wrong or just inconvenient for you?” And that’s helped me so much to stop stepping in when kids are just being kids
2026-04-05 03:05:10
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Samantha | Mom of Two 🩷🩵 :
It’s a constant effort to remind myself that my daughter is 2
2026-04-04 21:26:46
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Lala :
I keep yelling this at everyone! My mom had undiagnosed anxiety and depression. Guess why I also have severe anxiety. First time I got mad at my baby twins, I went to therapy and got medicated. I have been on Lexapro for 4 years and my twins are now 5. They are angels, not to toot my own horn but CALM MOM = CALM KIDS
2026-04-07 00:37:25
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★ cris ★ :
another thing i need to get better at is to stop getting so overwhelmed and insecure when im out in public with my toddler, im terrified of looking insane when my toddler is just having a normal kid reaction to things and then i have stop and think “if i saw a mom and her child doing the exact same thing would i genuinely judge her?” and the answer is always no lmao
2026-04-06 09:53:21
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Huey White :
Children show us where we need self work
2026-05-18 13:48:49
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Denise :
Especially out in public. It's so easy for me at least to over correct because people judge but if I see another child doing what mine is doing it doesn't bother me because I'm not judging the other parent. Working on that hard over here. They're just kids and people will get over it. As long as they're not hurting themselves, others, or being destructive it's fine.
2026-04-06 18:55:00
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LaurenWarehime :
This is absolutely me. I am so overstimulated and they are always near me. I love them but they need to go be loud somewhere else. I keep trying to explain that they have a fun basement for loud play and we can have family time in the shared space but they never want to be away from me. They’re 12, 9, and 5. At what point does the behavior need to be corrected if they insist on staying where I am?? Like don’t I at some point deserve to control the living room TV and not hear kid shows? I need a middle ground.
2026-04-07 03:34:45
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Ozzy :
The more I let the truly little things go, the better mood everyone is in and the easier that day goes.
2026-04-06 00:41:31
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Rikki 𓆉 :
I sometimes have to pause and ask myself if I would be shocked at another parent getting mad at their kid for doing whatever behavior my kids are doing. It's weird but it helps lol because sometimes I see parents get after their kids and I'm thinking, "they weren't even doing anything" but then I quickly remember I do the same 🫠
2026-04-06 14:31:22
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Brianna McCorkle :
Yes! Most of us need to recognize this more! Because many of us were led to believe that we were annoying as children for being children and so we do the same without even realizing it.
2026-04-04 22:11:19
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squarepie32 :
I'm not saying it's right, but I get why we were raised in a "seen and not heard" environment. I have been overstimulated for 5.5 years straight now.
2026-04-07 11:02:51
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Ingrid :
I think bc we don’t get a moment to re group life is go …go..go. We don’t get to decompress. I also would snap at my kids so I decided we all get a decompress time. I will literally tell my kids I’m putting a timer I need a break don’t ask me for anything and they also go to their rooms to decompress I think it has helped tremendously!
2026-04-07 01:29:15
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Celeste ~ Mum & CEO ✨️ :
This is so true, I think I'm a better Mum at home than I am out in public because I'm so conscious of how my children's actions are affecting other people 🫠
2026-04-07 02:46:24
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K Flo :
God. I feel seen. ❤️
2026-04-06 00:44:42
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jessrelaxbro :
yesss! sometimes you’re the one overwhelmed, the kids aren’t “overwhelming you” it opened my frontal lobe!
2026-04-07 00:06:36
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Brittnie | SAHM of 4 :
The algorithm is hitting a lil too close to home because I LITERALLY just told him 20 minutes ago that I am problem here…not the kids. I’m stressing everyone out and I need to calm the f down.
2026-04-06 06:51:40
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misss_vic :
THIS! Like why are they always talking and bickering. I am the problem.
2026-04-05 13:32:45
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Nicolle :
kids are loud. my 2 and 6 year old are so loud. should I not be asking them to play more quietly? I feel like that sounds ridiculous but I also feel like letting them be super loud will lead to them being super loud in quiet places... like the library or at a funeral. shouldn't we be helping them to learn how to have fun without screaming? idk, I'm genuinely asking. I don't want to be snapping at my babies all the time. ❤️
2026-04-05 02:04:46
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Sarah :
I need to chill, I find myself getting so frustrated with my 4 year old and driving us both insane too
2026-04-29 15:59:00
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Kate :
Howwww do I fix it? I live in fight or flight and I react immediately. How can I do better and just let them be kids?
2026-04-08 20:21:29
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Hannah :
I term myself the health and safety officer.
I only intervene when it will impact physical or emotional wellbeing of my child, the animals and lastly the adults.
2026-04-07 02:18:26
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gabs :
I literally told my mom the other day, is it wrong or is it just annoying you?
2026-05-08 17:24:53
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