Matt just returned from a weeklong trip to the Pacific Northwest (in exchange for the month I got to spend in Melbourne at a Montessori training). I sure do struggle to be a successful parent when I’m on my own! On top of the solo parenting difficulty, it was a particularly busy week at work. My patience for my children was virtually zero. The whole situation crescendoed into curling up in a ball—crying—on my bed on Saturday night, scrolling through Facebook. I felt like such a failure as a parent. Then I came across an ad that gave me direction for my most recent quest toward purposeful parenthood.

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