Raising Children in an Anxious America

This is not normal

Mindy Stern
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readMay 8, 2019

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OOur ideal weekend was over. I hugged my daughter, took one last look into her blue eyes, smiled, and watched her head off with her new friends. My husband and I got into our car and drove away from her bucolic, upstate, New York liberal arts college, en route to my husband’s sister in Connecticut.

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