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Mom's role clear when kids sick
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Voices
Mom's role clear when kids sick
By DEBRA-LYNN B. HOOK
Sunday, September 14, 2003
Laundry is piled halfway up the basement wall. Things are growing
in the refrigerator. And except for the Robitussin DM and the
thermometer, I don't know where anything is.
Two of my kids have been sick, back to back, with the flu.
And I love it.
Of course, childhood illness itself is not something I wish for.
When one of my children utters the dreaded, "I do...
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