My Secret to Parenting Is to Expect Less of My Kids

Embracing the middle ground between my standards and where my kids are at have made parenting much less stressful.

I often get tagged in parenting articles on social media touting silver-bullet solutions that will help me hack my way through whatever difficult parenting trench I find myself in. From potty-training to picky eating, I have survived many parenting battles. Still, I cannot begin to tell anyone what the answers are to those thorny issues.