I learned that being good enough means that you…

I learned that being good enough means that you are still caring, loving supportive but at the same time you don’t meet every single expectation, your child may have it means that your child won’t always get what they want or what they think they need and those delays or dissatisfying experiences actually help the child develop because let’s be honest life doesn’t always live up to what we want from it. When I read about the good enough mother, I realized that I needed to take the WordPerfect out of my new motherhood vocabulary.

— from Time

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