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Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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The Importance of Loving Your Kids

There's that stereotype of a, there's a stereotype of the mother saying, I didn't endure 12 hours of labor, you know, and go through that just to have you speak to me that way. But again, the kids didn't ask you to make any of those sacrifices. They didn't ask for any of this. So putting a burden or expectation on them that they will essentially worship you for sacrifices they didn't asked you to make is wrong.

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