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“By staying calm, they’re showing their child that a mother can handle anything. A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world. Absorb it, the instructors say. Take it. Take it.”
― The School for Good Mothers
― The School for Good Mothers
“They’re angriest about the phone privileges. The rumors that the fathers’ evaluations are easier. The rumors that the technical department handles all changes of blue liquid.”
― The School for Good Mothers
― The School for Good Mothers
“He had seen a birthday party, with one child singled out and celebrated on his day, so that now he understood the joy of being an individual, special and unique and proud.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”
― Haroun and the Sea of Stories
― Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, and that light is your child.” They’ll train with a cohort of mothers based on their child’s gender and age. It wouldn’t do to have mothers of teenagers training with mothers of infants. Class sizes will be kept small, for the time being. Each mother will be assigned to a cohort based on the age of her youngest child. Mothers of girls and mothers of boys will train in different buildings. “Girls and boys have such different needs,” Ms. Knight says. Mothers of both will report for extra training three evenings a week and every other weekend. Mothers who have multiple children, as well as addiction issues, will be extremely busy.”
― The School for Good Mothers
― The School for Good Mothers
Jess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
105 books
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8 friends
0 books
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1 friend
0 books
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24 friends
380 books
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67 friends
102 books
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9 friends
214 books
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2 friends
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