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To: Dayuhan who wrote (32419)	3/13/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Gee, most of my parents' mistakes came from being fairly self-absorbed, much more interested in outward success and intellectual pursuits than in child rearing, and from being not very mentally healthy, really, now that I look back on it. I don't really think they even thought about how to be good parents, even though they both spent their lives educating children. My daughter has probably suffered because she is my first priority, and my husband and I just like to spend our time hanging out having fun with her, although we are still perfectly capable of having plenty of fun on our own as well, as we discovered when she was old enough to go away on vacations by herself. Adequacy as a parent I am sure has a big part of healthy self-centeredness in it. I think that is important. How can we teach our children to have happy lives unless we are living happily ourselves? Ah, the small luxuries of being ill! This morning my daughter brought me cocoa in bed, while I lay in the bright morning sunshine watching crystals beam rainbows all over my Wedgewood blue bedroom walls, reading Irish travel guides and dreaming, kept company by my cats sprawling luxuriantly around me. Then I took a nice long nap!