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How To Parent Your Inner Child While Refusing To Babysit The World

Sanni Lark
3 min readJan 14, 2024

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You owe it to yourself to take your life back and bring your inner child along for the ride of a lifetime! Redeem her for the pain she went through by creating a beautiful life for you both to enjoy.

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As a woman people from all walks of life will especially gravitate towards you because we are expected to coddle, mother, nurture, and babysit the entire world. If we are not having families of our own we are supposed to use our free time, money, and energy to help other families. We are supposed to want to babysit for free. We are supposed to relate to the struggles of mothers everywhere because we are supposed to join them someday. Parents feel a lot safer around female strangers because of the assumption that women are always looking out for their children.

If there are no children around to nurture, guess what? There is a slew of adult men who could use a mother for a girlfriend or wife! Many women want to be called your friend because they could use a stand-in for the mother they never had.

Ask me how I know. Been there, done that!

None of this sacrificial lamb shit is expected of men. Men are generally allowed to maintain more autonomy over their lives than women. No man is called a coldhearted bitch because he sets strict boundaries or says no to a…

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Sanni Lark
Sanni Lark

Written by Sanni Lark

Channeling sacred, unadulterated, feminine chaos and wisdom through writing. For more primordial womanhood activation visit: https://www.sannilark.com

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