I crashed my helicopter and it felt good, giving up helicopter parenting

Last week marked a turning point for me in six and a half years of parenting my daughter; I gleefully and purposely crashed my helicopter. It was never my intent to become a helicopter parent, after all when the girl joined our family six and a half years ago, I already had 13 years of …

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It’s not all about us

Once upon a time in a world not that long ago, people who chose to have children understood that the end goal was to raise the kids to be productive members of society. It was understood that well, the babies don’t stay babies and that while it’s bittersweet to think of our precious babes as …

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