I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

我是一位母亲，为了避免灾难，我异常努力地工作。因为害怕大肠杆菌，我不让我的孩子吃汉堡包。我不允许他们玩绳子、绳子、气球——任何可能勒死他们的东西。他们不得不把葡萄咬成两半，避免吃棒棒糖，只有在我能看到的时候才吃。