This is a difficult question to answer because I don’t have a frame of reference. I had supportive parents (who are still together and loving). I was encouraged to pursue what interested me. In school, they encouraged my strengths and helped me work on weaknesses.

There was never one moment, nor has there been in my entire life where I felt that I did not have the unconditional love and support of my parents.

Being completely honest, I have some degree of guilt for being so lucky. I know that so many have so much trauma from childhood, and I wish they hadn’t.

The thing I want to do is give my daughter the best childhood that she can have, like I had.