It was Abraham Lincoln who was quoted as saying, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”
He was probably speaking about the burdens of his presidency and of the Civil War, but he could well have been talking about parenting.
How often do parents feel at their wits' end and wonder how they are going to cope with the confusion, the contention, the competition and the conundrums that are part of the parenting process?