Our charge for all these Momorandums? To intersperse well-selected nuggets of lesser-known information with some well-selected inspiration. To the latter, we could not resist sharing this quick jolt excerpted from a larger article that made its way to us around Mother’s Day…
   
From “ON BEING MOM,” by Newsweek columnist ANNA QUINDLEN (reflecting on her three children, now grown):

“…What all those books taught me, finally, and what the women on the playground taught me, and the well-meaning relations –what they taught me, was that they couldn’t really teach me very much at all. Raising children is presented at first as a true-false test, then becomes multiple choice, until finally, far along, you realize that it is an endless essay.

“… Even today I’m not sure what worked and what didn’t, what was me and what was simply life. When they were very small, I suppose I thought someday they would become who they were because of what I’d done. Now I suspect they simply grew into their true selves because they demanded in a thousand ways that I back off and let them be. The books said to be relaxed and I was often tense, matter-of-fact and I was sometimes over the top. And look how it all turned out. I wound up with the three people I like best in the world, who have done more than anyone to excavate my essential humanity. That’s what the books never told me. I was bound and determined to learn from the experts. It just took me a while to figure out who the experts were.”
 
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