When You're the One Struggling
The hard part was not the day. The hard part is lying awake afterwards, going back over it, wondering whether you handled it badly and whether it is going to matter in ten years.
Parenting anxiety has its own logic. The most recent thing that happened feels like the whole picture, the thankless stretches feel permanent, and nobody tells you whether you are getting it right because there is nobody whose job that is.
The posts here are written to you rather than about your kid.