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The Exhaustion of the "Good Parent": Honesty, Emotional Labor, and the Prepared Adult
In this entry of Montessori Dad, I’m sitting with a specific kind of fatigue, the exhaustion that surfaces not from parenting itself, but from the labor of pretending we aren’t exhausted.
Through a Montessori lens, we often talk about the prepared environment, but we rarely discuss the prepared adult as someone who is allowed to have limits. This is a meditation on the “mirror” our children hold up to us, reflecting the parts of our own inner child that learned to perform “being okay” even when we weren’t.
This is a reflection on parenting while tired, loving without the weight of perfection…
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