and I thought I had it bad.......

This book should have been a quick read but didn't end up that way. Jeannette Walls wrote the book as if she were sitting and talking to me. As I was reading, memories of my childhood would pop up and make me put the book down to remember. Wow! Just can't believe how messed up things were then. I guess some children have to go through rougher trials to prepare them for whatever lies ahead. I would never want my children to go through what I did or worst yet Jeannette Walls. However shielding them from every danger might do them more harm in the long run?.?. I can only do, like I like to believe that my parents did, which is that they did the best with what they had/knew for raising children. Every generation gets better than the last, is what I tell myself when I think I'm messing up my children. How I wish I had a village to help me raise my kids. A wife would be nice too. But no, just me. Like I tell my kids when they get frustrated and angry with me, "you picked me to be your mom, next time chose wiser." I do apologize ahead of time for all the therapy they will have to pay for my ignorance and flaws. So back to the book! I did like it and do recommend it to others. The book makes me not want to complain ( not that I do a lot of that anyway) because it could always be worse.