Don't Go In

I keep telling myself this over and over.

Don't go in. Just wait. It will be over soon.

Sleep training. It is for sure one of the most difficult things I've had to do in my entire life and certainly my very least favorite thing about being a parent. Listening to my child crying, shouting my name, so upset, and knowing I could end it all if I'd just go in.  But I can't. It's this terrible cycle I'm in with him, that I am his only form of comfort. And I know that my job as a parent is not to fulfill his every need, but to teach him how to fulfill his own needs.