The Price of Motherhood

Parents of college-age daughters, you have my sympathy. As we endeavor to educate them, they turn on us with their new-found revelations.

So mine puts this book. The Price of Motherhood, http://www.amazon.com/Price-Motherhood-Important-World-Valued/dp/0805066195,  on the coffee table and says, "You should read this."

Background. I had a short-lived career as a speech therapist that corporate relocations and children derail. 20 years and one divorce later, she's asking me to examine my decisions.

My response was this. "You are asking me to compare my lack of a salary to raising you and your sisters for all these years. I will tell you that there is no amount of money that correlates. So the book to me is irrelevant. Money does not equate with the enormity of what I am doing here with you and your sisters."

And as I have said before in these posts, I am not angry with her for attacking me. I have always allowed them to question and analyze. Of course they are going to tear me apart. I'm the best known quantity.

But I know my goals, my challenges, my daughters.