Nobody talks about protecting your child from disrespectful family. Here's how I regulate through it.

So we don't talk enough about disrespectful family members, so let's get into it. Because this is how I regulate my nervous system. One of the things that I did to regulate my nervous system was I decided to control my child's environment. I think people kind of forget that mothers are like bears. Like, my child is the thing I have to protect with my heart and soul. So if you are comfortable enough disrespecting me, you get no access to my child. If you are comfortable enough making me uncomfortable, why do you think I want you to make my child uncomfortable if you can do that to me? And I don't care what anyone says, there is no way you can disrespect the mother and be kind to the child. It doesn't work like that. So one of the things I've done is I go no contact. I don't care if it's families, aunties, uncles, disrespect is disrespect. One thing I will teach you is I will absolutely help you learn how to respect me, but also in turn learn how to behave. Because you're not about to misbehave and think my child is going to pick up your misbehaving habits. No. So yeah, I'm a mama bear. Like, I'm a big mama bear.