There will be a time when she doesn't need me anymore. When she doesn't want to hold my hand in public, or lie next to me as she goes to sleep. The time will come when she is ready to make her own way in the world. That time is not now. And I don't want it to be. There is so much noise (and so much pressure) in the parenting world. So many books, methods, approaches, and "expert" opinions. No one is an expert in my child but me. No one else has been her first home, her consis

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