“We live in the tyranny of a severe inner critic…we fret and fume…chances are it’s not because [our children] are wild and chaotic, but because we ourselves have a problem with our leadership, with consistency, with order, with handling conflict, with saying no. You know our children come to us whole complete and worthy, they’re happy with two sticks, a stone and a feather…but we project a sense of lack on them.”

Amen.