Re Hope: Speaking from the grand vistas of just one easy child, now nine: Doing all the hard and tedious things well, or as well as you can, and explaining even to a preverbal child when you need to take a little detachment break-- being calm and gentle, or as calm as you can be, but definitely gentle, and narrating when you need to admonish your child that these are choices-- and (funner part) (mostly) treating your child as a partner to the greatest extent possible-- pays off faster than you expect in spades.
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Speaking from the grand vistas of just one easy child, now nine:
Doing all the hard and tedious things well, or as well as you can, and explaining even to a preverbal child when you need to take a little detachment break--
being calm and gentle, or as calm as you can be, but definitely gentle,
and narrating when you need to admonish your child that these are choices--
and (funner part) (mostly) treating your child as a partner to the greatest extent possible--
pays off faster than you expect
in spades.