motherhood

Before you became a mother, you thought you understood love. You had loved people deeply — a partner, a friend, a parent, a pet. You knew what it felt like to miss someone, to worry about someone, to want good things for someone more than you wanted them...

Long before a child has words, they are learning. They are watching the way the person closest to them moves through the world. How she responds when something goes wrong. Whether she speaks kindly to strangers. Whether she apologizes when she makes a...