Are You Parenting Out Of Embarrassment?

SDI Productions/E+/Getty ImagesOne of the things that has surprised me most about being a parent is how quickly my confidence can cave in public. And I don’t mean the confidence I have in my own beautiful, smart, kind children — but the confidence I have in myself and my own parenting choices. We all say things like, “I would never let anyone tell me how to parent,” until we find ourselves in the library during story time, really wanting to talk our kid down from her tantrum, but instead feeling the wandering eyes of other moms drilling into us until we just pack everything up and leave, sweat