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The Mid: 5 Rules My Mother Taught Me to Break as a Parent
In many ways, my childhood was completely conventional. My parents raised me in a two-story house in suburbia and sent me to public schools. I had one younger brother and a dog. My mom played team tennis and was president of the PTA, and my dad was an attorney and came home every night from the office with a special treat he would pick up for me at 7-11 on the way home.
But just because my childhood was conventional, at least on the surface, doesn't mean it was boring. Nor does it mean that my parents were not layered and complicated people. Now that I am a parent myself, I see how much that is true. I feel lucky to have had the parents I did and completely convinced that they not only influenced who I am, but also how I parent my own four children. Read more
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