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Advice Every Girl Needs To Hear From A Mom Who Raised 12 Daughters

There is more than one way to build a beautiful life, but the version we hear the loudest is usually the one built on speed: chase the degree, chase the title, chase the dream job, then maybe one day, if everything lines up, squeeze family into the margins.

By Sarah Janisse Brown5 min read
Esther Janisse Brown @estherscanon

My upbringing looked nothing like that. I was raised by a mother who believed home was not a place you outgrow, but the soil where calling, character, and creativity take root. It shaped me so profoundly that I now raise my own daughters the same way, all twelve of them.