Trying to avoid my mother's parenting style left me reluctant to ask my adult children for the time and connection I wanted.
My mother expected me to call every Sunday. I expect almost nothing from my kids.
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Susan Solomon Yem
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As a laissez-faire mama who didn’t enforce music and Mandarin lessons, I feel guilty for not being the ideal model of nurture
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By always stepping in, I enabled my husband to step back. But the consequences of years of unequal parenting became impossible to…
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