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It’s All My Fault. All of it.

We have a new rule in our house these days: Everything is my fault. No matter what. If the conditioner bottle in the shower is empty, it’s my fault. If the egg yolk breaks (she hates that) when it is going into the pan, it’s my fault. If it gets to be 3:00 in the It’s All My Fault. All of it.

The Problem With Parenting Books

Oh, and parenting websites.  Those too. If you’ve dug around my blog at all, you’ve probably seen quite a few references to my philosophy of “Question Everything.”  And if you follow my work, you know that I run a number of parenting websites (via facebook, mostly).  And if you’ve followed me on Facebook, you probably The Problem With Parenting Books

101 Dead Mothers and Other Tales for Children

Bambi.  The Land Before Time.  Finding Nemo.  Frozen.  Tarzan.  The Lion King.  The Little Mermaid.   Kung Fu Panda.  Ice Age.  Beauty and the Beast.  Despicable Me.   Countless fairy tales. Dead mothers.  Dead fathers.  Missing parents.  But mostly mothers, mostly dead mothers.  Trauma, trauma, and more trauma.  What are we thinking?  As some of you know, 101 Dead Mothers and Other Tales for Children