So on the days I don’t think I’m up to snuff on this parenting deal, I take comfort in the fact that many other people are investing in my kids. In the end it will be a cumulative effort.

But each time in the years to come when I feel a need to ground my feet against the rush of life, the words will come back to me. It’s just wind. It will pass. No rain.

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At the time I knew EVERYTHING about raising children. We didn't have children yet but I was majoring in Behavioral Science and I had trained horses so I felt pretty confident.

So you breastfed. Or rather, you tried to breastfeed. There were two babies and you were clueless, exhausted, and overwhelmed.

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Maybe she wasn’t rude; maybe she was shy. Not impolite, but reticent. She was me on a different day.

Lola's hands will grow and change and they have so much life ahead of them.

Sometimes I have to remind myself not to steer him away from this fleeting innocence.

I have this cute child. He's eight now. And tall for his age. And very much like my first born with his perfectionist tendencies.