NOTE TO SELF

When We Try So Hard To Be Good Parents That We Screw Up Our Children

Almost irreparably.

Adelina Vasile
5 min readMar 11, 2022

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Picture of baby elephant trying to drink water from a river, with his mother standing right behind him, as if pushing him towards the water.
Photo from Pixabay

“Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” — Matthew Jacobson

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Adelina Vasile

Mother, educator, journalist, copywriter. I write about the things I need to learn myself.