![]() ![]() She set out to build systems and change policies that allowed him education and meaningful friends. ![]() ![]() She was determined to prove doctors expectations wrong. Writer Cami McGovern’s oldest son, Ethan, was diagnosed with autism as a small child. But what if we are not the parents we thought we’d be, or our kids are not the kids we thought we’d have? I’m Kate bowler and this is everything happens. And the journey to love them will teach us something reasonably easy about ourselves. So often parenthood is about a mythical child who will be perfect in a way we haven’t quite put our finger on. Kate Bowler: Or maybe they’re a professional athlete, because did you see the way he winds up to kick a sister? Just joking, joking. Ivy League, for any kid because of all that baby Einstein I gave them. Until, of course, you realize you have just become your mother and our kids will follow the path we’ve carefully laid out for them. We will be the kind of parent who never bribes their kid because of course they will be tiny little angels and always less than the first time, and we will do everything exactly opposite of how our parents raised us because we know better now. Kate Bowler: We often have very romantic expectations about parenthood. ![]()
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