I don’t know when parenting content turned into performance, but at some point it did. You scroll past reel after reel of perfectly curated family moments—matching outfits, themed birthdays, chore charts that look like design projects.
And it’s easy to feel like that is what good parenting looks like now.
But if you pause for a second—and actually think about what kids remember—it’s rarely the polished stuff.
It’s tone. It’s repetition. It’s how things felt. And identity, for kids, grows out of those feelings long before it turns into words.
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