Health & Parenting (2024)

FAQs

What do I do if I don't want my child anymore? ›

Healthy parenting means nurturing the whole child, attending to physical, mental, social, emotional, and intellectual needs. A definition of good parenting acknowledges that parenting is both an art and a skill.

Build a support network

Or someone else that you and your children trust. If you're finding it hard to cope and need support, let people know as early as you can. Try not to wait until you feel like you're in crisis. You could try writing down how you might behave when you're feeling unwell.

Cold mother syndrome refers to a parenting style characterized by emotional distance, dismissiveness, and rejection. This type of mothering is often accompanied by a lack of emotional availability and neglect of a child's emotional needs.

Mom burnout sometimes called depleted mother syndrome, is the feeling of mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of fulfillment caused by intense child care demands. Burnout is the result of too much stress and a lack of resources for coping with it.

Signs of poor parenting are when a parent withhold affection, all advice; no encouragement, lack of support, not setting rules, comparing your child, not proud of his/her achievements, disciplining child in front of everyone, reprimanding the child excessively.

Ineffective parenting is when you fail to produce certain desired behaviours in your child and where both parent and child can feel intolerable stress in the process. And it's this aspect of parenting that can endanger a child's wellbeing and mental health in later life not to mention your own.

It's not even the fact that we have to somehow keep them alive. Or the reality of lost alone time. The hardest thing about parenting is this: It is not our job to prevent our children from feeling pain. Our job is, actually, to allow for their pain and to walk them through it.

What does parental burnout look like? ›

Parental burnout leads to overwhelming exhaustion, emotional distancing from your children, and a sense of being a poor or ineffective parent. These effects can take a severe toll on your mental health. Depending upon your level of parental burnout, the impact on your mental health may include: Brain fog.

They may experience mom guilt, be burdened by the fear of failure, and feel unappreciated for everything they do for their children. Many parents, including women who become stay at home moms, are juggling their feelings and concerns on top of worrying about their children's emotions.

Give it up for adoption. It's okay with realizing that you cant love or take care of the child. Consider a close family member that way your child grows up around family. If that's not an option consider child protective services they will find a home for the child.

Talk About It

And if you are; if you feel like there's no way out, and you just hate the job of being a parent, then now is the time to talk with someone about it. It's okay to feel the way you are feeling, and it's typical, in fact!

Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness describes the active choice not to have children. Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901 and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s. The suffix -free refers to the freedom and personal choice of those to pick this lifestyle.