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Nobody disputes the enormous responsibility a mother has for shaping her children’s lives: I get to shape their personalities, their experiences, their very futures. Isn’t that wonderful? No. It’s terrifying.
“a mother should, above all, make her children feel safe. Perhaps”
― When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
― When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
“lower my voice instead of raise it, model flexibility rather than impatience, embrace my child rather than my frustration. I”
― When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
― When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
“Nobody disputes the enormous responsibility a mother has for shaping her children’s lives: I get to shape their personalities, their experiences, their very futures. Isn’t that wonderful? No. It’s terrifying.”
― When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
― When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
“I lied and called it “nothing,” simply because it was too exhausting to lay it all out.”
― When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
― When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
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