Hello fathers and mothers of this beautiful community, I want to tell you something that happens to me, starting with these words:
"What our children are learning from us as parents, everything they see and experience at home is what they will give and receive as adults."
With these words in mind I go crazy haha, and I mean the huge, huge responsibility we have with our little ones, because it is so real and I go to my example as a daughter and it is true that what I saw from my parents, what I lived in my home was all I learned to relate to the outside world and as an adult I realize that they were not the best examples or the best tools, I had many problems as I grew up, when I had to follow my own life and although I improved in many things I still have much to improve.
Which makes me more anxious because I feel that some of my bad habits or poorly learned patterns can be passed on to my daughter, sometimes I have to tell myself: breathe, just love, the love you have for Luna will be reflected in her. But my parents love me too, and yet they got carried away by their own problems and traumas, so how can I be any different?
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If I am my daughter's example, the one who must then improve would obviously be me, since I found out about my pregnancy as I had already mentioned, I decided to heal certain things in my life and improve in others because I knew that if I did not do it, the same pattern would keep repeating itself in my daughter. I decided to learn to manage my emotions (which still cost me some), I decided to love myself more, to value myself more, I decided to apply respectful parenting, which I feel it should not be called that way hahaha, it is just raising with love, awareness and respect, it should be something normal, not a technique or a specific label, but well that's another topic.
But I still feel that I have things that I can't manage and I'm afraid that Luna will learn them, so I feel lost, guilty, responsible, it's a feeling that always accompanies me, I don't talk about it very much, I don't have mom friends with whom I can express myself, but hey, I have you, I don't know if this happens to you or just to me, because the truth is that I haven't had the opportunity to talk to other mothers, we know that motherhood is not all wonderful, that nobody has it all figured out, that we don't know everything, I do know that.
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There are times when I am very stressed and I raise my voice, I scream like my mom did when I was little, others when I do not know how to communicate my bad, I just stay quiet, I spend time in silence or I want to be alone drowning in myself. One day I was in that state of silence, where I just repress, I feel far away from everyone and I start to distract myself on the phone, measure to escape from myself, and my partner comes over with Luna, asking me where is such a thing, I answer her like in a bad mood without looking away from the phone, Luna comes and tells my partner: leave her Edwards she just wants to be quiet looking at the phone.
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I looked away from the phone and stared at my daughter, she went away to play, I thought, wow! I am unintentionally transmitting something to Luna that I am not sure if it is good, I went to my room to cry, I don't like her to see me cry, I was very surprised by her comment, maybe she knows that I need time alone? Or quiet time, will she know that I feel bad and I am absent on the phone, when she feels like that, will she do the same and be absent, instead of talking about it, expressing it, I was getting desperate, so my mother instinct was just to dry my tears and go to Luna, sit next to her and tell her: that I felt a little bit tired and sad so that's why I was resting and watching videos, but it's better to talk to someone when we feel like that, so when you feel bad you can tell me, ok, that's why mom is there to listen to you (obviously it was hard to hold back my tears, because I was sensitive), then she saw me and asked me why I was sad and there I could not tell her my problems, she is just a child and even if she was a big girl it would be hard for me to worry her with my problems, I could only answer her that my tummy hurt a little and that a little hug would make me feel better and so she did, she rubbed my tummy, sang "sana sana sana colita de rana" and hugged me hehe, I love her.
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What I want to get to is that I can not always control everything, I am a human being, who feels and makes mistakes, I do not always manage to act like that and stop whatever was wrong learning Luna of my actions, sometimes I just let myself go and I lock myself up and I know that Luna notices it, now I know, with that comment, that conclusion that I draw alone, because I never told her to leave me alone that I want to be on the phone, no, I just move away little by little, it happens to me several times and she came to that conclusion alone and gave me space and went to play, which was very strange because Luna if she lived on top of me would be the happiest girl in the world, she has to know what I do, where I go and everything on top of me, even to the bathroom she follows me.
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So hearing her say that and leaving me alone was for me like an alert, but I don't know exactly what she could have interpreted from my attitude, because if she understood that I needed space that's fine, but if she understood what was really going on and it was me withdrawing from the world, repressing my problems, crying inside, I don't want her to learn that, I want her to talk if she feels bad, I want her to get it out and the only way is for me to do the same and I don't do it, those are one of the many things I don't want her to learn, but sometimes I don't know how to get it out either. Does something similar happen to you or am I the only one?