DiscoverThe Huddle Wisdom Podcast with Dr Davin TanEpisode 140: How to Parent When You’re Exhausted: Staying Present with Your Child on Empty
Episode 140: How to Parent When You’re Exhausted: Staying Present with Your Child on Empty

Episode 140: How to Parent When You’re Exhausted: Staying Present with Your Child on Empty

Update: 2025-05-29
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This episode is about the version of parenting no one talks about. The one where you’re running on almost nothing. Where your child still needs you, and you’re not sure what you have left to give. We’re not talking about burnout as a concept, or fatigue as a buzzword. We’re talking about the real-life moments when you're holding a meltdown with one hand and your own regulation with the other. When you want to be calm, present, available but you’re overstretched and running late and the toast is wrong again. This conversation won’t give you tricks. Just clarity. A way to think about tiredness that doesn’t make it a personal failing. A way to respond to your child without having to pretend you’re okay. For parents who are doing their best, even when their best is quiet, slow, and not very pretty.


Mentioned in this episode: Making Sense of Anxious Children A course for parents who want to understand what’s really going on beneath the behaviour


Available at www.huddlewisdom.com 

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Episode 140: How to Parent When You’re Exhausted: Staying Present with Your Child on Empty

Episode 140: How to Parent When You’re Exhausted: Staying Present with Your Child on Empty

Dr Davin Tan is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and parent.