Dear Less-Than-Perfect Mom

[litebright]

I liked a lot of the sentiments in here. 

www.huffingtonpost.com/lea-grover/dear-less-than-perfect-mom_b_3184445.html

"I know that you don't believe that you're doing your best, that you think you can do better. I know you are doing better than you think."

[karmasabiotch]

Heath agrees. 

[litebright]

Darn, I didn't see it on the first page. Oh, well!

[papie]

I love this. 

For some reason, this really got to me:

Unfortunately, there are no perfect parents. Your kids will grow up
determined to be different than you. They will grow up certain that they
won't make their kids take piano lessons, or they'll be more lenient,
or more strict, or have more kids, or have fewer, or have none at all.



So true.  But yet, so hard to let go of that idea of being a "perfect" parent, or at least better than our parents.  Isn't it?

[karmasabiotch]

It's worth a second posting.

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"I know that some days are so hard that all you want is for them to end, and then at bedtime your children hug you and kiss you and tell you how much they love you and want to be like you, and you wish the day could last forever."

This is so true.

Someone should make a sticky of this for when people post wanting to know what raising children is *really* like, the good and the bad. It's very accurate.