Working Mom Feels Like a Bad Parent

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A parent who works full time writes that her toddler son has recently become extremely clingy and whiny when she comes home. She knows that he’s testing her but doesn’t feel she handles it well, and she sometimes loses her cool. “I’m totally lost,” she says. “I’m very upset and feel I’m a bad mother.” For more advice on common infant/toddler parenting issues, please check out Janet's books at Amazon and Audible (adbl.co/2OBVztZ). Also available for download, her audio series "Sessions" -- recorded consultations with parents discussing their most immediate and pressing concerns (SessionsAudio.com). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Janet Landsbury and welcome to Unruffold.
0:06.1	Today I'm responding to a comment from my website.
0:08.9	The comment was posted on an article called Ford Toddler Testing Behaviours and How to
0:14.2	Cope.
0:15.3	The parents as your boy has recently become very clingy and whiny and has frequent meltdowns
0:21.3	when she tries to leave the room.
0:23.4	She writes that she sometimes loses her temper and is feeling like a bad mother.
0:30.5	Here's the comment from my website.
0:33.0	Hi Janet, I'm a huge fan of yours and your suggestions.
0:36.0	I have a 2.7-year-old son.
0:39.5	He's quite a smart guy and he likes to play on his own sometimes.
0:44.0	Starting about a month ago, his testing behavior has become too much for me to handle and
0:48.3	I've had a few meltdowns of my own.
0:51.4	Limits are set and I speak to him in a firm manner for any of this testing behavior.
0:56.6	But it's just getting too much.
0:58.7	He winds, cries and clings to me and I cannot do anything even go to the bathroom without
1:03.9	him having a meltdown in spite of telling him that I will be back, etc.
1:08.6	I'm a full-time working mother and he goes to preschool and daycare.
1:12.8	Once he's back home, there's a nanny to take care of him for an hour and a half until
1:16.2	I get back from work.
1:17.8	A few people have started telling me that since I work, he has this separation anxiety.
1:23.0	I do understand that because for the good part of 8 hours, I am not around.
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