Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America

by Stephanie Kiser

But that’s the thing about kids. Rich, poor, smart, fresh, happy, angry, it doesn’t matter. Children are universally difficult.

I begin to think maybe I hadn’t been slow after all. Maybe I had just been born into the wrong class.

The thing I would later come to realize is that women needing validation from men is a universal problem that affects every class.

It seemed that women, regardless of their age, race, or tax bracket, were overshadowed by the men they were associated with.

The fact was, Americans supported working wives, so long as the women still did all the things they’d done when they didn’t work.

I feel a flash of shame at how easily I focused on my mother’s faults, never recognizing her strengths.

unconditional love children offer is different from the affection we share as adults. It’s given without judgment or boundaries.

The only thing truly precious in this world is having people who love you, and success and happiness often have no correlation whatsoever.