Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth !!exclusive!! -

Who are you "teaching to give birth" in your life right now? Share the one skill you wish they would let you help with in the comments. And if you're a parent reading this? Go easy on your kids. They’re learning too. If you liked this, check out my other post: "Explaining Cloud Storage to My Dad Using a Closet and a Fishing Rod."

That’s when I realized: I was acting like a bad birth coach. I was shouting "PUSH!" without explaining how to breathe. If you are teaching a parent a new skill (technology, finance, health, or even social cues), treat it like labor. It’s messy, it hurts, but there is a beautiful result on the other side. Stage 1: Early Labor (The "Why" Phase) Symptoms: Denial. "I don't need to learn that." "Just do it for me." teaching my mother how to give birth

Taking over the mouse/keyboard. The Fix: Put your hands in your lap. Use verbal only instructions. "Move the cursor to the top left. Click once. Now type your password slowly." Pro tip: Let them press "Enter." That moment of success is the baby crowning. Celebrate it. Stage 3: Transition (The "Let me do it for you" Phase) Symptoms: Begging. "Please, just this once, do it." Who are you "teaching to give birth" in your life right now

When I feel my jaw clench now, I stop the lesson. I say, "Mom, remember when I was five and you spent three hours teaching me to tie my shoes? And I cried? And you just kept tying and untying the laces until I got it?" Go easy on your kids

So, we created The Sacred Notebook .