Katie Pummill

“It’s okay for your child to feel angry. It’s okay for him to be frustrated. Frustration helps him push through adversity, to focus and persevere till he gets it. There’s a maturity that comes from that. A child is not psychologically unhappy if he’s frustrated. He’s just experiencing an emotion in the moment, and if you help him push through, it will lead to more endurance, more stick-to-it-iveness, and the satisfaction of doing it himself.”
― Jo Frost, Jo Frost's Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behavior

“And remember, while you compare yourself to others, convinced that if you could be like them you’d be happy and worthy, there is probably someone comparing them-selves to you, thinking the same. We are all somebody’s Susie.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

“Care tasks are morally neutral. Being good or bad at them has nothing to do with being a good person, parent, man, woman, spouse, friend. Literally nothing. You are not a failure because you can’t keep up with laundry. Laundry is morally neutral.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

“How you relate to care tasks—whether you are clean or dirty, messy or tidy, organized or unorganized—has absolutely no bearing on whether you are a good enough person.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning