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.

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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.