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your shoe size
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By G-Team's Danni Landa
he pressure to be the perfect parent and raise the perfect child has become
ridiculously extreme. It seems that since the printing press was invented, books
about raising children have been choking up the nightstands of parents all over the
Western world. My nightstand is no different, stacked as it is with well-thumbed tomes
that seem to scream at every page "No! You're doing it wrong!" It’s almost as if when I
switch the light out at night, the authors are getting into fisticuffs over who's philosophy
is the best.
Lets face it. We are not perfect. And nor should we be.
We have all had those parenting moments that we wish had never happened. Those
regretful episodes where we really could have behaved with more compassion, respect
or even just acted our age. We need to start talking about those moments to counteract
the pressure put on us by popular culture (and sometimes even our peers) of what it
is to be a parent today. I want to hear about the fails! To open up dialog about the real
face of parenting at least to make myself feel better about my own nose dives. So, here
I go, into the confessional of not-so-perfect parenting.
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