Kids will take this stuff for a while, but eventually they shake off this blanketlike control. One day Brooke said to herself, Mom is getting out of line. It’s about time to reel her in. Maybe it’s time for her to get a C on the report card. Brooke received the C, and Amy came unglued. She ranted, raved, grounded, withheld, lectured, yelled at the teachers, and recruited her husband to deliver his “Get good grades now or you’ll never cut it in college” speech. Brooke sat back and thought, You haven’t seen anything yet. Wait until Mom gets an F. Poor Amy. She has yet to discover that
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