{"id":6519,"date":"2015-08-10T06:13:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2017-02-20T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T20:34:00","slug":"the-conversation-i-almost-missed-the-future-it-couldve-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/2015\/08\/10\/the-conversation-i-almost-missed-the-future-it-couldve-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conversation I Almost Missed & the Future It Could\u2019ve Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cYou make me feel like I belong under the sun.\u201d \u2013Citizen Cope<\/em><\/p>\n I was not expecting to experience such an emotional response when Dr. Shefali Tsabary<\/a> shared her video<\/a> about parent shaming with me. It was the following words, found two minutes and twenty seconds into the video, that brought me to tears:<\/p>\n \u201cI came to you so you could honor my soul, nurture my worth, and preserve my spirit. Yet it is you who annihilates my very essence in the name of parenting, in the name of love, in the name of teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Shefali then calls on parents to \u201cbecome the person they are meant to be.\u201d She describes it from a child\u2019s perspective as:<\/p>\n The parent Not too long ago, I was good at shaming my children. It wasn\u2019t obvious. It was subtle. Exasperated breaths. Eye rolls. Belittling. Inducing guilt. Acting like they should know better. But they were children. They were learning, and I seemed to forget that.<\/p>\n I thought it was my job to teach them a lesson.<\/p>\n But what I was teaching them was that I could never be satisfied. I was teaching them to confide in someone else\u2014someone who would be more understanding and less reactive. I was teaching them to strive for perfection, no matter the cost.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>The guardian
\n<\/em>The usher of my soul<\/em><\/p>\n