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There's some upheaval in the structure of Friday's school, some changes are being made which we're not very happy about.
In discussions with some of the other mothers of kids in her class I couldn't help but notice that we all mentioned consulting our mothers on this, we repeated their opinions and were all interested in what each others mothers had to say.

We're women in our mid to late 30's and we need to, and are able to, discuss our thoughts with our mothers. We value their input and respect their opinions. We heed their advice and allow it to validate our own thoughts. We accept their criticisms and sometimes change our viewpoints accordingly.

I know I'm utterly privileged to have my Mum along for this journey of parenting, to have the relationship with her that I do, to have her around at all.
I sometimes think I could not have done it without her, she scoffs at this and says of course I would have.

Maybe, but I would definitely not have done it so well.

Thanks Mum, for still being so very present for me, I hope I can do the same for my girls.

But my word that means there's many, many years of parenting yet ahead!