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Do you feel that you are a good parent?

I do the best I can. It's the nature of parenthood to see one's failings in much sharper contrast than your successes, because the evidence of being a good parent plays out very slowly across a lifetime, whereas your fuckups are generally quite immediate.

With her getting bitten last week... no. I didn't feel like a good one at all, because I'm supposed to protect her, I'm not supposed to let things like this happen to her, I should have been out there, I should have known somehow, I wish to god it had been me instead.....
.....this is the litany you hear in your head at night when something bad happens. it doesn't stop for quite awhile.

Have at it.