Tag: parenting
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My Mom has Alzheimer’s
My mom has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dementia. It’s not as a surprise—we’ve seen it coming. Over the past five years or so, we’ve noticed increasing cognitive issues—searching for words, forgetting details, unable to remember things that just happened, or we’ve just talked about. But to hear the neurologist describe her as ‘demented’ hits hard.…
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System 1 vs. System 2 Parenting
Every parenting cliché is true. You’ll never sleep again. ✅ You’ll never see your friends again. ✅ You’ll become a morning person, not because you want to, but because your little gremlin is up at the crack of dawn and *needs you now*—sorry, but you don’t even have time to ✅ But the biggest cliché-because-it’s-true…
