Dr. Lindsay Gibson

And then after, you know, around six months past that, everything kind of comes back together.

They reorganize.

It goes like that, okay?

But the child is growing the whole time.

So things are getting better even as you're hitting these rough spots.

But there are different challenges for every single age because the developmental needs are pushing the child into behavior that makes emotional work for the parent.

So, yeah, do I remember peeling my son off the sidewalk to get him in the car because he didn't want to leave the bank one day?

Yeah, absolutely.

Were you yelling while you did that?

I don't think I had the energy to yell.

I was trying to pick him up like dead weight lifting.

It was all I could do to get him in the car.

I didn't have the wherewithal to start yelling.

But at whatever age, you know, whether it's a teenager who is trying out their wings and they're trying to have their say about things, it's all hard because you've never been through it before.

Yeah.

And if you have more than one child with this particular child.

So mistakes are the order of the day with kids.

The one thing that I'm very happy about in raising my child was I always knew when I felt bad about something I had done or said, and I always went back and apologized.

Right.

And apology goes a long way, I suppose.