I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the wor… - Joan Didion

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I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree....Those of us less inclined to compliment ourselves on our parenting skills, in other words most of us, recite rosaries of our failures, our neglects, our derelictions and delinquencies.