“I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.”
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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.