Healthy Pushing Away

If your upper elementary (tween) kiddo is pushing you away, you’re doing something right.

As hard as it is for parents, it’s developmentally appropriate for your child to push against you. If you’ve given them a solid foundation and they feel secure in your relationship, they then feel the freedom to test. To push. To begin to emancipate.

All of this is completely normal and healthy. It’s our job to raise humans who’re sound enough to grow up and away from us.

It’s not personal. And it’s hard as heck. Yet, it means they’re on the right track.