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Introducing the whole genetics department! 🧬😂
My amazing parents, myself, and my mini-me. Figured my very first post should feature the most important people in my universe. Get ready for a lot of family, chaos, and love on this page! 🫶🐾
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At 18 I was a military wife. By 22 I was a single mom of two toddlers in the Great Recession of 2007.
I was a military wife at age 18. I graduated in 2003 in the top 10% of my class with a 3.8 GPA and a state scholarship. Before a year had passed, I was married and had moved across the country from Goose Creek, SC to Colorado Springs, Colorado.
We only had one car and didn't want to work opposite schedules as newlyweds, so we planned to buy a second car ASAP and find work for me then. We’d originally planned to wait on kids, but after a pregnancy scare, we realized we felt ready after all. Less than six months into our marriage, I was 19 and pregnant.
It already sounds like a trainwreck unfolding, doesn't it?
We bought two cars and a two-bedroom townhome in an up-and-coming neighborhood. My ex drove a red Pontiac Sunfire, while I had a dark green soccer mom minivan. I found a part-time job at a local marketing agency and greeting service that let me bring Corbin along (until he got too mobile).
I started writing. That made me really happy because it was what I always wanted to do. I mastered SEO, rose to the highest pay grade at the primary site I wrote for, and was featured on the front page more than once. I even taught new writers and caught the attention of a few respected voices in niche fields.
I believed in attachment parenting. We coslept from day one. I breastfed Corbin until he was two but stopped short of tandem nursing. Orin was born a few months after Corbin weaned. By then I'd switched to cloth diapers (and cloth TP for myself), couldn't wait to homeschool, and was caught up in the natural living craze. I made very different health decisions, like that Orin was born at home.
I also ran a home daycare, serving military families and low-income single moms. Between parenthood, babysitting, and writing, motherhood became my whole life and identity. Sometimes I'd have up to six kids in the house and work as many as sixty hours in a week. I never came close to earning what my husband did, but I felt like I worked constantly.
Friends and family back home had little idea what went on behind the scenes, but my ex's alcoholism wasn't some well-kept secret through all of this. It wasn't plastered all over social media, but it was very public locally. There were other issues, too--personality clashes, communication breakdowns, lifestyle incompatabilities.
I've been asked, "Was it really that bad?" I don't know. Whatever it was, I left before Orin's first birthday. I was 22 when I packed my kids, my dog, and whatever would fit into a Dodge Caravan and drove from Colorado back home to South Carolina.
My birthday was a few months later. At 23, I was a low-income single mother of two toddlers with only a high school diploma and limited work experience. That was in 2008--during the "Great Recession." The bank took the townhouse. I guess it wasn't much of a home anymore by then anyway.
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If I don’t want my child to speak to me in a certain way (tone, language, attitude) then I need to be mindful not to talk to them in that way. Nothing more humbling then when your child says something horribly rude to you and you recognize your own voice in there 🤦♀️ Easy to go down a shame spiral… Take a deep breath. We can reflect on this. For one thing, it happens to most parents. We’re not perfect and in our moments of passion and reactivity we can act in ways that are not in line with our parenting intentions and are also super memorable for our children. 5 things to keep in mind: 1. If you manage to refrain from using whatever phrase or gesture, for a while, your child will likely stop using it too. 2. Your child saying or doing this “rude” thing is not something to worry about long term. I know an f-bomb dropped at the park can be mortifying but think of how you would take it as another parent. I personally would be trying not laugh and would likely laugh about it later, so no judgement from the parents you should actually want to be friends with and nevermind the others. 3. Your child using the phrase or gesture is a way of them processing the experience. It’s actually healthy, from a psychological perspective because they are working through it, experimenting with what type of response they will get; “how does this work for me?” 4. They also love and admire you so if you did it, it must be ok to do, right? You can try to explain this but it can often get confusing for kids, we get lost in trying to explain ourselves in an adult way lol 5. Try not to react or just react to the emotions and not the “rude” behaviour “wow, you sound frustrated!” @responsive_parenting Learn more about this in my latest E 📖 Finding Your Calm: A Responsive Parents Guide to Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation Link in bio @responsive_parenting or on the Website: responsiveparentinginspirations.com #ResponsiveParenting #JMilburn #ParentMentalHealth #MaternalMentalHealth #PostPartum #MensMentalHealth #ParentingLife #HealingJourney #GentleParenting #AttachmentParenting #Attachment #AttachmentTheory #Parenthood #SelfHealing #SelfCompassion #EarlyChildhood https://www.instagram.com/p/CePr3fioeNj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=