Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth __full__ -

I cried, though.

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

She had given birth. And I had been there to catch her. I cried, though