The Self-Imposed Isolation of Having a ‘Spirited Child’

“Why don’t you just leave?”

The other mother at playgroup said it softly, but it was deafening to me in a vulnerable moment.

I was 8 months pregnant and trying desperately to wrangle my 2-year-old at a playgroup meant for caregivers and children under 5. He had gotten away from me in the sea of small bodies crowding the portable, seizing his…

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