My sister and I are raising kids who play together constantly, and we're both trying to parent differently than how we grew up, but we keep bumping into each other's boundaries and approaches. When her kids melt down at my house or mine act out at hers, we handle it so differently that the kids are getting mixed messages and we're both feeling judged.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people from the same wounded family system are creating different healing paths that sometimes conflict in practical co-parenting moments.
“Where Are You with Trauma-informed parenting?”
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