I want to let you in on a secret, that I hope will not get me kicked out of the woman club: mothering is hard. It is very hard.
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Perhaps our permissive and entitled culture has contributed to a generation of kids who have lost the ability to see right from wrong and to rule themselves. If I hadn't told my kids no, how would they have grown up with the ability to tell themselves no?
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I am grateful that my worst day occurred far from Facebook, cameras, and the accusations of the world. We are so quick these days to point the finger, assign blame, and demand retribution and punishment- all on the few facts we read at the moment.
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If you want to know why remembering on Memorial Day is so important, and the depth of the debt we owe our soldiers, read one of the following books. If you read two or three of them, you might find your mind forever altered. You might even walk up to a random service person and give them a hug, just in sheer gratitude. Consider yourself warned!
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As I sit across the table from my kids at Mother's Day lunch, I am keenly aware of their mercy. They KNOW the real me. They have seen and experienced me in all my up-close and personal reality.
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The paradox of parenting is that by doing it right you work yourself right out of the first place in their heart.
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