Funny b/c in the spectrum of women’s health and childbirth I have made real peace with people choosing options that I would never choose for my family. The line disappeared with spanking and I’m trying to sort through the emotions of it all.

And about the “right” thing–I find it easy to say it’s right for me and understand that other people’s choices would be right for them. This makes sense and the line gets dicey when we are talking about individual rights (adults and children).

It’s impossible to not feel as if what we do is “right”…why else would e do it? It’s impossible to know what is “right” for someone else. And worse, what if the parents swear it is right and the children are obviously hurting from those choices? That line all but disappears in those instances for me.

i recently had a related conversation with a farmer friend about making peace with our own inconsistencies. (as in…i can’t even count the number of drive-through meals i have bought for my kids on the way to work at a farm that raises all-natural, pastured meats and eggs.)

and then there was my recent experience in florida where i say my all-natural, deep-breathing, yoga teacher-self in a walk-in clinic for SIX hours to get drugs to make it through the plane ride home.

talk about a humbling experience. it was incredible and i am deeply changed for having it.

i’m thinking about you every day and sending lots of love and light…

xo

~erin
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And I hear you on the changes parenting brings. I am much less judgmental, now that I have been through it myself. There just is no one right way to do it, which is what I finally understand now.
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