Let Go of Trying to be Better Than Your Parents

Russian dolls standing in a row

This post was originally published on my Inquiring Parent blog on Sep 10, 2013, and was updated on April 26, 2018.  In the weeks before my father died, we had many conversations. Sometimes, he expressed regrets. He hinted that my sister and I had done better at parenting than he did. He thought he’d done things that weren’t kind; he … Read More