There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'
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I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, 'This is how you're supposed to do it.' And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, 'Here's the good stuff in life. How do you get there?'
Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.
It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
I had a kid, so I had to step it up and get that cake.
I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.
The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.
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