"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent]
is the one that most of us make....
This is particularly clear now the
moment is gone, captured only in photographs.
There is one picture of [my three children] sitting
in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing
set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one.
And I wish I could remember what we ate, and
what we talked about, and how they sounded,
and how they looked when they slept that night. I
wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the
next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed.
I wish I had
a little more and the
a little less"
-Anna Quindlen (Loud and Clear 120041, 10-11).
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