You can't be a perfect parent. Otherwise you would have to do all of this...
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How To Be A Mom in 2017: Make sure your children's academic, emotional, psychological, mental, spiritual, physical, nutritional, and social needs are met while being careful not to overstimulate, understimulate, improperly medicate, helicopter, or neglect them in a screen-free, processed foods-free, GMO-free, negative energy-free, plastic-free, body positive, socially conscious, egalitarian but also authoritative, nurturing but fostering of independence, gentle but not overly permissive, pesticide-free two-story, multilingual home preferably in a cul-de-sac with a backyard and 1.5 siblings spaced at least two year apart for proper development also don't forget the coconut oil.
How To Be A Mom In Literally Every Generation Before Ours: Feed them sometimes.
(This is why we're crazy.)
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Research shows that you should stop trying so hard.
All you really need to do is be warm and loving. In a longitudinal study (that followed the same men for 78 years), the key is "a nurturing family environment" to a happier healthier life. This article just points out only one aspect, relationships, but there is a connection to good health and contentment in the sunset stage of life as well.
Have a great summer! See you in the fall.
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