Nurture All You Want, But Nature Gets the Last Word

Kasey Q. Tross
4 min readFeb 7, 2020

Why you can’t use your kid’s behavior as a barometer of your parenting skills.

Photo by Hugues de BUYER-MIMEURE on Unsplash

It was 5pm, and my 13-year-old son was struggling with his math homework at the kitchen table.

“This just doesn’t make sense, Mom! I’ve tried it three different times and I still can’t get it to work!”

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Kasey Q. Tross

Musings on motherhood, writing, life, and relationships– and the struggle to stay sane through it all.