Next time you see a child running around spewing energy, you might want to keep your rude comments to yourself and think about what’s it’s like for the parent trying to reign in all that energy and channel it in a positive way.
Thanks to the compassion of a stranger, Taylor Myers was able to make it through her day feeling a little bit stronger.
Myers, a single mother who also has a 1-year-old named Mylo, was online at Walmart with a cart full of groceries waiting to cash her paycheck while her daughter was throwing a fit.
“As I stood in the customer service line of Walmart to cash my paycheck with a car of groceries (and some wine), Sophie sat/stood/did head stands in the car, whining over a bag of chips I took away because she called me a butthole in line,” Myers wrote in a post on Facebook. “She’s relentless. I know this. I live with it. Her ADHD and obsessive little heart gets on these subjects of things she finds unjust and wrong and it doesn’t stop until she eventually falls asleep or something very dramatic happens to snatch the attention off the obsessed about subject.”
Myers refused to placate her daughter’s tantrum and continued to ask her daughter to sit down when a woman behind her rudely said, “Oh, for Christ’s sake give her a cookie so she’ll shut up!”
Myers was so exhausted that she decided to curse the lady out rather than explain that her daughter has severe ADHD and she was doing the best she could raising her two children on her own.
After cussing the woman out, she began to cry.
That’s when a kind woman walked over and started talking to Sophie, asking her a series of questions to distract her from her tantrum. Then Sophie’s ADHD went back to the chips.
“No, you can’t have those today,” the woman told Sophie. “You have to be good for your mommy. She needs you to be good for her. I have a little girl just like you. How old are you? How old is brother?”
Myers was so touched by the woman’s efforts to help comfort her and her daughter that she created the post on Facebook that now went viral.
Many on social media found comfort in her words which they could also relate to.
“We have a child with mild autism and behavioral issues,” one Facebook user wrote. “I understand you completely, just stick it out. Children don’t understand exactly what’s going on all the time, or the situations they put you through as a parent. Just stay strong, they love you just as you love them.”
Since then, Taylor has started a new Facebook page Taylor Plus Two.
“I like to give others a chance to read about what happens to and with us, because I know a lot of people find solace in knowing they aren’t alone in the chaos and craziness of life,” she said.
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