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As parents, we like to eye roll and commiserate about our failings as parents.

We made an elaborate lunch to trick our toddler into eating vegetables. Not only won’t he eat it, he later finds and raids your Super Secret Stash of Snickers, leaving a trail chocolate smears and wrappers through the house.

You forget to check to see what your kid is wearing before they leave for something and find out too late they are wearing something wildly inappropriate for the occasion or the weather.

The kids learn something about life from your behavior that you didn’t intend to teach them and then share it in public at the worst time.

But nobody is dying. No one’s life is in danger.

We wear those kind of fails as badges of honor, a series of moments where we glorify in the funny, embarrassing times when our kids shine a light on our humanity.

It’s harder to talk about the times when we actually mess up.