"We parents can do them a big favor if we back off the expectation that they will all be shining stars one day, and allow them to be as ordinary as we are. There comes a time to stop planning for the perfect life and just live it, imperfect and changeable as it is." --- Frederica Mathewes-Green
I found a wonderful essay tonight about our culture's destructive obsession with youth. The quote above hit me particularly hard since I have been known to discuss grandiose expectations of myself with various psychiatric professionals over the years ;)
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