When Parenting Feels Like Drowning

The Wild Word magazine
5 min readOct 11, 2018

By Jami Ingledue — BEHIND DOMESTIC LINES

Part two of our special series on parenting a child with behavioral needs

I feel like I’m drowning in the ocean — like I’m unable to catch a break or catch my breath. Like even though the waves are calm right this second I can’t relax because any second now -whether I relax my vigilance or not — a new wave will crash over me and pull me

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