Steph Claire Smith broke down in tears on her Keep It Cleaner Podcast (KICPOD) last week as she revealed ‘the worst thing’ her son Harvey has ever said to her.
The fitness influencer, 30, who shares her three-year-old child with husband Josh Miller, posted the vulnerable moment to Instagram last Wednesday.
In the heartbreaking clip, the model couldn’t keep her emotions in check as she admitted her only child recently told her she ‘scared’ him when she got angry.
‘I don’t like this. I feel like s**t when I blow up in front of him,’ she explained to her guest speaker Lael Stone.
‘The worst thing I think you can hear a kid say to you is, “Mummy, you scared me.”
‘My least favourite words I’ve ever heard him say, but it’s happened. I’m crying now. I think it is that you put all of this pressure on yourself as a parent to do it right.’
It’s not the first time Steph has shared her parenting woes as the mother-of-one is often open with her followers about how difficult parenthood is.
She shared one of her many parenting struggles last month when she uploaded a screenshot of a wellness app page which showed she only got three hours of sleep.
Calling it the ‘worst night’ she’s ever had as a mum, Steph shared a heartbreaking update about her son’s sleeping patterns.
‘Well that was the worst/most challenging night in the three years of being a parent,’ she captioned the graph.
The co-founder of fitness program Keep It Cleaner then shared a photo of herself lying in bed next to her son looking very unimpressed.
‘Got home from the theatre at 11pm, hopped straight into bed. 11:30 Harvey woke from a nightmare, Josh resettled, we thought he was back asleep, ten minutes later he’s awake yelling out,’ she began.
‘Josh tried to resettle but Harvey was set on sleeping with us. So I got into his bed, and 20 minutes later he told me he wanted to go into our spare room, didn’t want to sleep in his room. So I did. Only to be awake for another half an hour with him until he was patting me hard and wouldn’t stop, honestly like he was stuck and couldn’t hear me.’
Steph went on to explain that Harvey was then ‘adamant’ that if he went downstairs to sleep in his parents’ room, he would finally fall asleep.
However, as soon as Steph relocated to her bed with Harvey, things went from bad to worse as the toddler continued to ‘kick’ them and ‘climb on their heads’ until he finally settled into sleep at 3.30am.
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