A child can validate a mother’s existence when circumstances permit
Evidence
But the fact is that if circumstances are not positively unfavorable, the mother will find herself enriched by a child. “It was like a response to the reality of her own existence … through him she had a grasp on all things and on herself to begin with,” wrote Colette Audry about a young mother. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1504
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Good parenting means deliberately surrendering the child to independence — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 332
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Good parenting means deliberately surrendering the child to independence — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 332
Broader Connections
- Good parenting means deliberately surrendering the child to independence
#complicates(0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 332