Motherhood
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Motherhood
It’s my son’s first birthday so in true millennial fashion I’m going to talk about me:
Katherine Boyletwitter.comSpread the Jelly
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The most important rewards of being a parent come from the moment-by-moment physical and psychological joy of being with this particular child, and in that child’s moment-by-moment joy in being with you.
Derek Sivers • The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
My life as a parent seems to come at the storytelling problem differently. The experience crowds out the narration, rather than the other way around. What is there to say about omnipresence? There’s a tactility to parenting (feeding, cleaning, dressing, hugging, rocking, kissing), a primitive quality (love, protection, devotion), that resists... See more
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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
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Wow, what a beautiful framing. Some people feel called to build families, others feel called to build ideas. They're not mutually exclusive, of course, but they're both ways to spread parts of ourselves:
"My religious cousin, who is the same age as I am, she has six kids. And I have six books. Maybe there is no great... See more