When You Get Home and Things Aren’t Neat and Tidy

As busy and as difficult as one’s job may be, that person may never know the challenge of needing to go to the bathroom with kids of an age or need, that require continuous supervision.

Upon returning home to be asked what one got done that day, is totally devoid of understanding the exhaustion of nary a break, continuous responsibility, and the averting of constant potential crises.

Parenting wee ones or kids with special needs whose needs require contant attention is utterly draining. If anything else gets done in a day, it is usually at the expense of one’s well-being.

So to those whose experience in such matters is limited, refrain from offering solutions in circumstances where one’s own experience is limited, yet judgement is high.

Instead, jump into the fray and simply do for the one whose job isn’t tied to a time clock, whose responsibilities remain in their head even when removed from those in their care by your moment’s reprieve.

To help, do instead of talk. Get instead of tell.

Be there is deed and action. Participate as if you too didn’t have a choice and the life of another depended on you.

To do so, now that is support.

Therein your actions will be appreciated.

That is where your power resides.

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Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. Gary is the host of the TV reality show, Newlywed, Nearly Dead, former parenting columnist for the Hamilton Spectator and author of Marriage Rescue: Overcoming the ten deadly sins in failing relationships. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.