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This is Me: Surviving the Effing Fours

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  This is me: doing the best I can. With my head in my hands. With my voice rising, higher and higher, like I swore I’d never do. So much gets left out of the parenting books. So much doesn’t get posted on Facebook. The nuances of child-rearing, the flickers and darts, the quirks and ... Read More about This is Me: Surviving the Effing Fours

What My Mother-Of-Adult-Children Self Would Say To My Mother-Of-Young-Children Self

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  A Guest Post by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Poet Laureate of Kansas             When my kids were young, I wrote an unpublished essay about how other parents seemed to be SHUPs (super-hippie unorganized parents) or SARPs (super anal-retentive parents), wondering where I fit in as someone who ... Read More about What My Mother-Of-Adult-Children Self Would Say To My Mother-Of-Young-Children Self