You bribed her with a cookie to get her to sit still in her stroller. You let them sleep in bed with you when they woke up at 3 a.m. You had another shouting match with your husband with your kid within ear shot, and according to that one study you read, that means you have single-handedly created a sociopath child with zero coping skills who will never find love. No matter how big or small, we’ve all slipped up, and the one thing we can’t do is go back in time and erase what happened. Instead, forgiving yourself and trying your damnedest to forget about the time you forgot to properly secure them in the car seat for that five-minute drive to day care is the only way to truly move on.
