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For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

“Clearly the writers of the law know little about women and nothing about childbirth. I could give them endless examples of the lies that have been spoken to me through gritted teeth as women heave their children into the world.”

“…He’s working up to it, though. It withers a lad, finding the courage for that conversation.”

rarely insist that a child comply with a request or behavior in a certain way. …trying to control a child prevents their development and simply stresses the parent-child relationship.

expect misbehavior and never argue. just stop.

“…we overestimate children’s emotional abilities.”

Everything inside me is churning, blending, becoming something else: confusion into anger, anger into defiance, defiance into madness, madness into feeling very, very small.

He does not say this, however, because his job is not to instruct the incompetent.

anger!