i’m a 27 year old single mom with a 12 year old (yes i had him at 15) son who has severe ADHD. his father used to physically abuse me, and i left him a few years ago. i’ve been single ever since, and we’ve gotten super comfortable with each other just because of what we’ve been through the past few years (abusive ex, dangerous area & i had to work late nights at the club to pay the rent when he was a toddler). recently these past few weeks, my son has been knocking on my door at night because he can’t sleep and i feel bad so i’ll let him sleep with me for the night. he’ll cuddle with me a bit and we sleep pretty well, however i’ve read online that co-sleeping isn’t super healthy, and i definitely don’t want to negatively affect his development in any way. any advice would be appreciated :)
Follow your feelings and don’t believe random stuff you find on the Internet. You know best what’s good for you and your child.
Sorry, no, parents don’t intrinsically know what’s best for their child, and that’s perfectly OK. It’s OK to not know what to do, and it’s undeniably right to seek those answers from others who might.
Parents thinking they always know what’s best is why so many otherwise totally normal kids grow up to be totally fucked up adults.
This has a chance of being bad advice.
Are you an anti-vaxxer?
OP does not define themselves in such conformist labels.