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The Mom Experience

GB Rogut

Jan 19

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Your Children Are Not Here To Please You

What are children for?

Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. — Exodus 20:12

What are children for? So much ink has been spilled to deal with this issue. Are they part of us, our property, or tiny minions sent to Earth to do all the things we could not achieve?

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