The Importance of Not Parenting Perfectly

Maybe it is because now that I am a mother of a little girl, I'm actually proud to teach her that doing it all perfectly every day is a dangerous aspiration. On any given day, the modern mother has to let something go or she will surely be broken by the weight of all she carries. Some days that can be extra work you had expected to accomplish, other days it is letting go of parenting as perfectly as you think you should.