http://www.mommysgroove.com/2007/09/17/its-a-good-thing-hearts-heal/ A blog about mothering: peeling back the layers Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.mommysgroove.com/2007/09/17/its-a-good-thing-hearts-heal/#comment-3082 Karen Maezen Miller Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:37:49 +0000 http://www.mommysgroove.com/2007/09/17/its-a-good-thing-hearts-heal/#comment-3082 "I have confessed before, and clearly I need more work because my shortcoming remain: I am a better mother in the light." Who isn't? Thank heaven the sun always comes up and shadows disperse. Kids forgive us instantly. After trying unsuccessfully to talk my daughter out of her fears I realized they were real, and perfectly realistic. When I quit trying to take them away, she can let them go by herself, and find new ones! “I have confessed before, and clearly I need more work because my shortcoming remain: I am a better mother in the light.” Who isn’t? Thank heaven the sun always comes up and shadows disperse. Kids forgive us instantly. After trying unsuccessfully to talk my daughter out of her fears I realized they were real, and perfectly realistic. When I quit trying to take them away, she can let them go by herself, and find new ones!

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