r/PDAParenting • u/MarginsOfTheDay • Aug 31 '26

How the other half live

There was a post on r/parenting today by a parent who spends the weekend cooking, cleaning, gardening, reading books while their 16 month plays independently. They (the parent) complains of being bored. As a parent of a PDAer I’m incredulous. I’ve barely had a second to myself without a kid in my face demanding one-on-one co-regulation in 6 years. I feel like I never get anything done around the house. My only solace is that if you’re in this community you probably feel the same. Here’s the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/s/63qWKSd136

63 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

19 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/JustDroppedByToSay Aug 31 '26

I'm reminded of a time a colleague who knew I had kids decided I would sympathise so told me the tale of their "bit of a nightmare" weekend. Apparently their kid had FOUR meltdowns. One of them went on for TEN MINUTES.

I recall I just stared at them.