Emotionally parentified/adultified kids learn that it is their job to grow up fast and swallow their own emotional and developmental needs to keep the peace at home and manage their parents. These kids may get “so mature for their age” or “so low maintenance.” While meant as a compliment, these phrases simply describe children who were asked to bypass their own developmentally appropriate role of child to become a little grown-up. And those roles take a toll.

OBSESSED with curly aemond art i saw on tiktok

A powder room was removed to create this entrance hall. The low table is decorated with small topiary plants. A graceful swan planter, filled with the house’s surrounding greenery, is a garden in itself.