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The thing about being a single mom living with an only child is that my son and I are day-to-day feedback monitors to each other. I reflect back to him who he is at any given moment – good, great, not so good and everything in between – and he reflects back to me. I call him on his stuff, he calls me on mine. But the key to making this work – to making any relationship work, really – is that the feedback, the conversation, the critiques and the compliments need to come from the heart. And that takes constant vigilance! Continue reading →