
Nope, not breast milk.
Not any new-fangled educational toy.
Not expensive enrichment brain-boosting classes either.
The Best Gift a Mother Can Give Her Child is... a Happy Mother.
It sounds simple but it is incredibly hard to do.
I learnt it the hard way. And like the last-in-class student, I keep having to re-learn it!
When my little girl was born, I thought that by sacrificing my rest/hobbies/me-time/enjoyment, I was loving her. The resulting stay-at-home-monster that was created soon taught me otherwise. I wondered why I was turning into an frazzled, irritable maniac. So much for...