Ep. 41: When one child needs more: The hidden heartbreak of protective parenting

Send us Fan Mail If you’re raising more than one child while co-parenting with an active counter parent, you’ve probably felt this impossible tension. One child is in crisis. They need more of your time, your emotional energy, your advocacy. Meanwhile, your other child quietly wonders, “What about me?” As protective parents, we often carry enormous guilt that we’re somehow failing the child who isn’t demanding our attention in that moment. But here’s what we rarely talk about- when the othe...