Some days the rubber just does not hit the road and all the long days of work and blood and sweat and tears are just gone. Comfort is somewhere to be found in that I guess.
Learning to parent is learning to fail with grace. Despite best efforts of patience, calm and consistency, the under-slept and overwrought side of myself occasionally comes out and wants to decide the moment with my child. I forget that it is a team effort--that two of us are learning together about life, growing up and becoming independent of each other.
Such moments thankfully are few and far between. And thankfully they don't seem to linger too much in memory or imagination for either of us.
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Have you read Annie Lamott's Operating Instructions?
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