#36. Parenting Quote of the Week
September 30, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care
We’d just come back from her preschool open house. Iris had wanted to take Miss Leigh’s piggy puppet with her and had cried in the car on the way home, unable to relinquish her disappointment until I pulled the parking brake. I let her pick a Johnny-Jump-Up in the back yard, and then we came around to the front to collect the mail. Iris liked reaching into the box for me, she liked dropping everything in the front hall too, saying “uh-oh,” and then smiling as if it hadn’t been on purpose. She helped me sort, she scribbled on the cast offs, and sometimes on important things, too, and I tried not to scold her too much, because I felt my own voice making me older with unnecessary corrections.
– Thea in The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross.
Love the excerpt! I’d never picked that out in particular, but thank you for including it here!
Gwendolen Gross
http://www.gwendolengross.com
I like the last bit about your own voice making you older.
Life’s too short to sweat the small stuff!