Supporting children with additional needs can take so much energy, managing behaviours, going to therapy and advocating school and NDIS, the list goes on.
The extra energy it can take to do all the things, can mean there is no energy left to be fun. You can want to be that fun parent, but often there just isn’t anything left.
Parents tell me they want to enjoy more family time, but then they also talk about feeling over it, they are just spent. When they don’t do the fun things, the family things, this can bring on that story ‘I am not doing enough’. This story can be followed up with the ‘I’m failing my child’ story.
It is easy to focus on what you aren’t doing.
If this is you, can you take a moment to acknowledge all the things you do manage to do. Things you never thought you would need to do, or that you even could do. And yet you do it for your child, all the time.
It is really impressive when you think about it.
What is going well for your child at the moment because of your dedication supporting them?