Mom Admits Parenting Three Kids Is Like Herding Cats With Wi-Fi
KEY POINTS
- •Danielle Schlass Saliman shared her 21 years of parenting experiences with three children, each requiring a unique approach.
- •Her oldest appreciates advice and independence, the middle struggles with anxiety needing emotional support, while the youngest insists on fierce independence.
- •She concluded that fair parenting isn’t treating children the same, but responding individually to each child’s temperament and needs.
Danielle Schlass Saliman’s 21-year marathon in motherhood finally revealed shocking truth: parenting three kids isn’t a 'one-size-fits-all' process—who knew? Her oldest, a college caller who wants advice but then decisively ignores it, requires a hands-off guide-on-demand approach. The middle child—detail-oriented anxiety factory—turns parental instincts into a rescue drama, demanding her mom’s reluctant role as emotional lifeguard, minus the drowning. Meanwhile, the youngest plays fiercely independent, rejecting alarm-setting, homework checks, or laundry help, tolerated only because Mom waits silently to spring into action when life gives him six impossible things before breakfast. And the chorus of 'favorite' accusations continues to tweak her guilt—because apparently parenting equals judicial fairness in sibling battles. Her epiphany? Fair parenting means properly mismanaging each kid differently, never equal. Thanks, Business Insider, for the clear parenting secret we totally didn’t already suspect.
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Trying to parent three kids differently without causing lifelong sibling wars? It’s like juggling chainsaws blindfolded—only the chainsaws are tiny humans who think fairness means 'identical punishment for all.'
Parenting three kids with different needs is like running customer support for a startup where every customer demands a custom product and none of them read the FAQ.
Mom's parenting style: Step back for the oldest, swoop in for the anxious middle, and hover like a ninja for the independent youngest. It’s not multitasking, it’s chaos control.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/13/2025 | Author: Danielle Schlass Saliman
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