Moments #55 - Parenting Irrational Beings — Why Your Emotional Regulation Is The Most Important Thing In The Room - Tiffany Scott (Sanya)

My 3 year old experienced five separate, genuine injustices this week. The discovery that her brother was carried in my tummy first. The milk poured without permission. In her mind, every single one was a devastating betrayal.I laugh and cry in equal measure. But I know she is not wrong to feel it. She just does not have the capacity to regulate those feelings yet. That is not her job right now. That is mine.This episode is about that. About what it actually takes to show up for small, intense, beautifully overwhelming people. About why doing something for yourself in the moment can feel completely selfish — and why zooming out changes everything.At this stage, self care is not selfishness. It is infrastructure.In this episode:→ Why children are not irrational — they are mainly just unregulated, and that distinction matters→ Why regulating your own emotions has to come first→ Why the run you almost did not go on, the hour you almost cancelled, pays off in ways the moment cannot show you→ Why self care is not a luxury — it is how you show up for their versions of injustice without losing your mindFor the parent who knows the emotional stakes are higher at this stage than anyone warned them about. 💛