The Authentic Eclectic

I Hate To Break It To You, But We’re Not Fine

That survival bias isn’t doing anyone any good

Jessie Waddell
5 min readApr 12, 2022

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A grandmotherly woman with a pink cardigan and two thumbs up, and a grandfatherly man behind her with two thumbs up. Both wearing glasses. Jessie Waddell.
“We used to send you to school with bare feet in the snow, and then when you got home, we’d smack you with a wooden spoon for walking funny, and you turned out fine!” (Image from Adobe Stock)

Parenting is hard. Parenting against the status quo is harder.

It pains me to put a disclaimer on a piece I feel so strongly about, but I think it’s necessary to make this clear— I do not hold judgement for the way…

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Jessie Waddell

Keeping it weird. I have too many thoughts so I write to clear some headspace. I rant, rave, ramble and occasionally make things up.