Parenting Help - Logic vs. Drama
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I get questions like this all the time and I’m wondering if you can relate to this.
A reader recently wrote me saying,
“I’m a single mom raising my 10-year-old daughter Becky. The older she gets the more uneasy I feel about how this is turning out. I am our sole support. I feel guilty for having a child with a guy that was really wrong for me – and would have been a terrible parent. I feel guilty for spending so much time away from her. I give in to her a lot and then I feel even more guilty. She is demanding, expects to have her own way and picks fights with other kids. Actually, I think Becky is becoming quite a brat. I’m at wit’s end.
Sandra
Feeling guilty for choices you made is sabotaging your success today. I can appreciate how frustrating it is to have things not turn out how you planned – but that is life! John Lennon wrote, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The big question is, what are you going to do about it now?
