Katrina Kenison Quote

One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.

The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir (ed. Grand Central Publishing, 2009) - ISBN: 9780446558099