How a parent helped his introverted child find comfort in a social setting.
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Read more >Being an introverted parent during the holidays isn’t easy.
Read more >Because they didn’t know me, my daughter didn’t get to be a part of it. And while I wasn’t pining to be in their group, it stung that it resulted in my daughter being left out.
Read more >Benj had taught me both how to be alone with myself and to recognize that the space between us is something to cherish.
This seems to me the most important thing about introverted parenting: respecting your need to have time to yourself, even if you’re in the same room with your kid, and finding creative ways to do so.
Read more >All that forced interaction in the name of good parenting creates a constant low-grade panic that ratchets up when the bane of all parent-introverts rears its ugly head: the birthday party.
Read more >I felt guilty sticking my hard-working, fully employed wife with solo parent duty just so I could go to the park and run circles in the sunshine.
Read more >I viewed my introversion as a parental liability, a flaw I had to overcome. Lately, though, I’ve been wondering: could my introverted personality be a benefit? Does it actually, in some ways, make me a better parent?
Read more >If you as an introvert hold yourself up to the standard set by our attachment-focused culture, you might end up feeling that something is wrong with you, that you don’t love your kids as much as you should, or that you’re somehow failing at parenting. You’re not.
Read more >Despite my understanding of introversion, I had failed to see Perla struggling at reading because she had been struggling in such a quiet way.
Read more >Society tells us that we should savor every precious moment with our kids, and I was struggling to do this. If motherhood had been one of my biggest goals in life, why did I want to get away from my children?
Read more >Still, I wanted to help out and be a good, modern parent. So I did the right thing and waited a couple of days to see if anyone else wanted to do it.
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