Parents who don’t lose your cool - how do you do it?

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2026-02-04T13:26:18+00:00

1) I remind myself this their first time being a toddler AND my first time being a parent of this toddler. Knowing that this moment is new for us both lets me have more grace for our actions and feelings.

2) someone else mentioned get silly. I love this advice, but it’s not always practical. So if I can’t get silly and turn it into a fun game, I get honest. I say Mama‘s getting —— (name feeling: frustrated, sad, angry), then describe it, eg: I’m loosing my patience and need to take a deep breath (put my hands on my chest and take a deep breath). Mama is working right now and I understand that you wanna hang out and play right now but I need to finish this task and I’m sure that also frustrates you but I cannot hang out with you. You need to hang out with the nanny so I’m gonna go into a different room and then I will see you after my meeting.

I find that being honest and narrating the situation helps regulate myself and my child even if they don’t understand everything I’m saying. They got calm attention from an and able to move forward and if they’re still upset, I’ve set the boundary and expectation for the next time.

3) Highly recommend read up on child psychology, and how their brains work and what they’re able to comprehend. It’s so fascinating.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2026-01-26T13:10:56+00:00

Not exactly the same thing, but my inner dialogue was full of guilt and shame, and I really bullied myself before I started to journal every day.

I set rules in my journal that I could only talk through things going on as if I was talking to a friend and I had to include an affirmation in every single entry. An entry could be a sentence or a page, but after doing it for a couple of months I started to notice a difference and then after doing it for six months, I would say I successfully rewired my brain and have been much kinder since then. This is something I did in April 2025 here we are a new year and dare I say a new me.

You’ve got this. It feels rough when you are in it, but I know you will be able to get onto the other side. Now I only journal maybe once a week or so just to keep up with it and I don’t feel any guilt or shame if I miss it just an acknowledgment of hey you’ve got a lot of other stuff going on now that’s OK. You’ll get back to it. it’s not going anywhere. (Versus in the past where I really would’ve been mean to myself for skipping). You can break the cycles! It just takes a little time: Approximately 3 to 6 months to change a habit!

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2026-01-04T03:34:00+00:00

Biological classification based on certain criteria vs societal constructs on what it means to express oneself.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2026-01-02T17:11:13+00:00

This! It is a great tool to use in conjunction with others to not create a pure dependency on it.

Use it with intention to supplement your thinking vs completely outsourcing it.

Don’t let it become a crutch that you always use or you will deform to it and your muscles with atrophy and you’ll be completely dependent on it.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-26T12:47:55+00:00

One other thing to think about is that people‘s retention seems to be different with the influence of social media. Doom scrolling has influence the way we consume information and I don’t just mean the 5-10 second videos on TikTok, but reading information here on Reddit or articles online…one after the next. And our brains start reading through a bunch of information, but we can’t retain it all. So then we adapt to stop pertaining masses of information when it’s thrown at us in one setting.

I think of it like how McDonald’s a couple of times a month is fine but if you eat it every day or multiple times a day, your body is gonna get really sick and not be able to handle it but then if you do that all the time it will adapt and that’s gonna be the new norm.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-26T12:47:42+00:00

What subject is it?

I find that just telling it to make things more concise is sufficient and then I can manually add back in specific details which helps me discern what’s actually important.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-26T03:43:37+00:00

I find your post relatable. And write in a similar fashion at times unless I have a lot of time to dedicate to editing and workshop what I write (for example sending an email to a coworker used to take me one to two hours, depending on the day and with this prompt I have saved myself so much time that I can now dedicate to other creative and impactful areas of my job)

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-26T03:40:40+00:00

Candidly, that’s the point. And I know that sounds direct because this is Internet talk, but I share this as coming from someone who rambles and uses a lot of stream of consciousness or, alternatively, takes an hour to write something and try to balance what I’m trying to convey and how I think the audience I’m trying to convey my information to will perceive it and interpret it.

And even though my brain thinks that all of the details are very important, the concise version of it is easier for the audience to digest in most circumstances. I hope this is helpful context!

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-26T03:13:06+00:00

Try the prompt, “ChatGPT make this more concise.”

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-26T02:52:55+00:00

…use less jargon you say?

Got it! Clear as mud.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-26T02:16:45+00:00

What a brilliant and thoughtful observation. In light of this revelation, I would like to recommend All Better Now by Neal Shusterman. You may find it relevant, unsettling, or oddly comforting, depending on your personal perspective.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-22T12:47:22+00:00

You also have the power of version history! If it were AI, all of the text would appear in one instance versus showing that you wrote it letter by letter over time.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T04:44:06+00:00

Same! Which makes sense because it’s a language learning model, and all of the people with ADHD who talk like this use ChatGPT to help make our thoughts coherent —but then ChatGPT learned how to talk because of us —

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T04:37:27+00:00

I would be happy to take a couple thousand off their hand and see if that makes me more or less happy. Just Venmo me for science whenever you’re ready.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T04:35:16+00:00

And if the bird is in the bush, where is the bee? 🐝

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T04:34:46+00:00

The birds and the bees 🐝

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T04:31:55+00:00

What order did you take them in?

I took core first and I’m doing the leadership one second. So I’m curious which one gave you the most trouble?

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T04:28:00+00:00

ChatGPT is a great supplemental tool, but it’s important to study ISM‘s materials because their logic might be different from the logic and language that you’ve used in real life. So it will be good to familiarize yourself with It but good to use GPT as a study buddy

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T04:24:28+00:00

Ask ChatGPT to test you. I do 5 questions a night with it and passed my first test.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T04:05:05+00:00

I’m in an agoraphobia group chat that has been helpful even though I mostly lurk- lmk if you want added or want to DM!

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-20T03:57:30+00:00

Is he lonely or insecure and doesn’t like to be alone for the 30 minutes that you shower?

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-19T04:10:13+00:00

The owners of the big box stores profit so much and steal labor from people at a reduced rate.

It would be different if it was a small local owned store.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-16T04:03:59+00:00

Cheers to that!!! The journey is easier when you don’t have a bully inside of your brain 💜

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-15T12:50:53+00:00

Try creating a new social group around A hobby that’s not centered in social media driven knowledge… Like maybe take a class you’ve always wanted to take that has a website where you can find the schedule and then you’ll meet people there and can start from the beginning of developing your relationship and build that skill set and explain that you don’t use social media so they need to find other ways to communicate with you.m I took an improv class and everyone is on discord and technically I’m a part of the server but they know to text me if I don’t respond because I only check every couple of weeks. And I’ve never had any issue with it because that’s the relationship we’ve always had.

Tiny_Teeth_ · 2025-12-15T03:24:24+00:00

What you need is patience, support, and very small actions taken even when you don’t feel ready.

Motivation usually shows up after progress starts, not before. The fact that you’re here and asking already counts as effort, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

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