I Don’t Live For My Children

LaToya Baldwin Clark
4 min readJun 2, 2021

In Anticipation of My “Forget These Kids” Weekend

Old suitcases  stack, mostly leather, retro, travel
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I am a bad mother. I curse around my kids. I don’t force them to eat vegetables. I encourage showers, but if they don’t stink, I don’t care. I told them we would get a dog and they could pick it out. Turned out I lied. We got the dog, but I picked her out. Her name is Hope.

LaToya Baldwin Clark

Law professor. Living with Bipolar. Teach and write about the law of educational inequality, property and the family. Mom of 3. All opinions my own.