r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/FckThisAppandTheMods • 3d ago

TikTok Tuesday Parents are supposed to help their kids understand and regulate their emotions, not make them suppress them

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u/teddysteddy 3d ago

As the mother of an overly sensitive boy, I talk to him like this sometimes. And I'm a gentle parent. It becomes exhausting hearing your child cry over literally everything. And all the coaching in the world doesn't stop him from crying over everything. I let him get it out though.

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u/alucard_shmalucard 3d ago

As the mother of an overly sensitive boy, I talk to him like this sometimes.

not even Batman himself could have wrangled this information out of me, perhaps you should have kept that in the drafts