Stop Telling Young Parents to Enjoy Every Minute

The good moments will linger. It's okay to forget the bad ones.

A toddler is melting down in the middle of a grocery aisle. The toddler’s mother is taking deep breaths, staying as calm as she can, wrestling her screaming child back into the cart while silently praying that no one will notice.

But of course someone does notice, and it’s a middle-aged woman with grown children of her own, and she chooses that exact mom…