Allison Hanes: To Mom, with gratitude and apologies

I had to become a mother myself to fully appreciate my own.
This is probably not an original realization, but in the quest to blaze our own trails as modern women, we are too often blind to such truths until they smack us in the face. And dealing with the challenges of raising small children is just the wake-up call I needed to cast my own youthful antics in a fresh light and fill me with gratitude for my mom’s extraordinary patience.
I was the Difficult Child, according to the title of a