Quotes from Amy Wilson

The things a mother does well are always invisible compared to the things she does badly.

lower my voice instead of raise it, model flexibility rather than impatience, embrace my child rather than my frustration. I

a mother should, above all, make her children feel safe. Perhaps

I lied and called it "nothing," simply because it was too exhausting to lay it all out.

Nobody disputes the enormous responsibility a mother has for shaping her children's lives: I get to shape their personalities, their experiences, their very futures. Isn't that wonderful? No. It's terrifying.