The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

“We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy r…”

“What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,…”

“So you used to know everything?"She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told y…”

“You are almost never cool to your children.”