Michael Mendizza – The Parent Taboo

Parents must reinvent themselves, in different ways, right along with their children. But they don’t. Parenting is transient. Pregnancy morphs into birth. One transforms into two. Each age and stage opens a new threshold to something unknown and unexpected for the child - and for the parent. The skills used to meet the needs of a three year old are completely different at five. The environment is also changing, as dramatically as our children.

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