I have heard from a lot of parents that they intend to raise their child to eat healthy, not watch television, and then they have children and park them in front of a video after going through the drive-through for dinner. Stuff happens.<\/p>\n
Well, here I was thinking that having a baby at 50 would make me a less neurotic mother than I would have been at 30. I read the article about free-range parenting and thought, what a great idea, let our child go to the park alone. <\/p>\n
Then my 14 year old Croatian cousin walks down to the park to photograph the flora and fauna for her science project and I’m itchy the whole time. I finally got my bike and went to go get her. So much for free-range parenting. <\/p>\n
I can’t even do free-range inlaws. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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