As a mother, spending days at home with my six-, four-, and two-year old often felt like an unending cycle of diapers, tantrums, and cries for help. But over time I started to see that in the midst of caring for them, in the midst of helping them grow and mature, I was changing. Now, three years later, I can look back with gratitude and list some of the ways my kids helped me grow up. —Amy Julia Becker
An Unlikely Baseball MVP (Most Valuable Parent)
He knew nothing about the national pastime, but sometimes parenthood calls one to do the most unlikely things.