Suzanne and Aimee

With an MA in early childhood development and over forty years of experience teaching at all levels, lifelong educator Valorie K. McLaughlin focuses on the teaching role closest to her heart-raising her own children-in this memoir of her years as a parent.

Each chapter represents a year of her daughters' lives, and celebrates the large and small milestones, stories, and memories that comprised an early childhood in America in the 70s and 80s.

Alternating between humorous, heart-warming, and surprisingly wise, these anecdotes entertain and instruct, providing invaluable practical advice for young parents today who may be overwhelmed by the conflicting opinions on childrearing so abundant on social media and the Internet.

So whether your journey as a parent is just beginning or you're delightedly watching your grandchildren grow up, you'll find plenty to smile about in McLaughlin's tales-and remember anew just how much you love the little ones in your own life.