Bone Worship

Motherhood Moments: Try a Little Selfishness

by Elizabeth Eslami, Posted May 8th 2011 10:00AM

Elizabeth Eslami and mother. Credit: Elizabeth Eslami

When I was 10, my mother took me out to the shed behind our house to ask me if she should divorce my father.

"I'm thinking of leaving him," she said. "But you need to know what ...if mothers don't teach their children how to be happy by example, who will?