Stop Telling Young Parents “You’ll Miss This Someday”

The good things will be remembered. It’s okay to forget the bad stuff.

Amy Colleen
5 min readJun 20, 2024
Photo by Heike Mintel on Unsplash

Imagine it: a toddler is melting down in the middle of a grocery aisle. The toddler’s mother is taking deep breaths, staying as calm as she can, wrestling her screaming child back into the cart while silently praying that no one will notice.

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Amy Colleen

I read a lot of books & sometimes I’m funny. I aspire to be a novelist, practice at humor & human interest writing, and am very fond of the Oxford comma.