I Had to Learn to Reparent Myself to Be a Parent Worthy of My Daughters

Motherhood keeps humbling me, stretching me, and teaching me to love without control.

Galina Singer, July 14th 2025

I had to learn to reparent myself in order to be a worthy parent to my daughters

Motherhood for me is a journey home to myself, where I gained greater clarity about my powers and limitations.

Each one of my daughters reflects back to me aspects of me. Some I loved seeing and basking in. Others were more difficult to accept, to admit to.

I saw that just because I am a parent to these humans, I don’t really know life better, nor am I better skilled at it. I keep being surprised, keep learning.

The life for which I was raised turned out to be an illusion. A mental construct. I find that to be a good parent to my children, I had to question and let go of a lot of these assumptions and certitudes on which I’ve built my life.

Most notably, I find that to be a parent worthy of my children, I had to learn how to reparent myself.

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