Postcards From a Stranger (Postcards #1)
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Read between February 22 - February 26, 2020
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So many fabulous-looking lives are fake. People only share the good parts and skip over the bad. Perfect, eye-sparkling, snow-dusted, heart-stoppingly romantic New Year’s Eves only happen in the movies.
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that pushes him on towards his goal with such surefooted certainty.
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Is the perfect mother the one who stays with her children night and day, putting their needs before her own, sacrificing the life that she once had in order to focus all her attention on them?
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What about the woman who juggles everything to try to forge a balance between work and home, providing a role model for her daughters while at the same time preserving a little of what she was before they were born?
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Should the perfect mother let her children make mistakes or sweep in to protect them against every false step? Does she twist the truth to make the world seem more palatable or be brutally honest from the outset? Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny . . . a...
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You see, there are so many ways of parenting a child. Who can say which is ...
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Every mother has to work this out for herself. She must decide what she thinks is best for her c...
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However, the one thing that drives each mother on is a visceral need to do her best for her offspring.
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But remember, before you rush to judgement, that all mothers are ultimately driven by the same engine, despite their differing makes and models. We are all just doing what we think is best for our children.