Yes

I’m listening to The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child on audiobook and I have to say, I never thought I’d be the parent who turns to books and experts to try to find her way out of parenting pickles, but to be honest, I never thought I’d be the parent whose kid called their daycare provider an idiot either.

And yet, here we are.

Parenting isn’t much fun these days. I know it’s a season of life, and probably (hopefully!) not a very long one, but the challenge is crushing my spirit a little bit. I don’t want to take Poppy out of the house because when things go pear-shaped, they go quickly and loudly and without warning. I have drag-carried her out of every grocery store, coffee shop, gas station, etc. in the last couple of months. My back is so sore. I am so tired.

So! The Yes Brain. It turns out I find listening to parenting experts talk about the chaos of a toddler’s brain extremely soothing (I’m not alone! This is normal! Poppy doesn’t actually hate me!) My next read will be No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind but I’d love to hear suggestions for what to read after that. I’ve asked on Instagram and Facebook, and I’m building my list. We’re going to get through this.

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