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"I tried everything to get my son to stop fighting with his brother and to just... leave the house without a battle every single morning. Turns out what he needed wasn't more rules, it was more of my husband and me. At Shannon's suggestion, we started alternating nightly walks with him, one-on-one, with no agenda and no tech, us or him. That's when he started actually talking. We learned that he was quieter than his brothers and felt drowned out by them. We loosened up on bedtime and let him get ready at his own pace in the mornings, and honestly the whole house feels calmer now. Wish I'd figured this out years ago."

"I had a real 'oh no' moment in class when we talked about my miserable hockey-playing son and my frustration with him. We talked about who actually wanted him in this sport — and, turns out, it was me. He was never that interested. Then I realized I only wanted it because my own mom never let me do it as a girl. Once I saw that, I let him sign up for the theater camp he'd been asking about and all his friends were doing, and I signed up for the hockey team I always wanted to try. Best decision for both of us."

"I didn't realize how isolated I'd become until I walked into this class. It wasn't just the sweet stuff we did with the babies — the breathing, the songs, all those little developmental nuggets — it was the other parents. Making those connections got me through the hardest, loneliest stretch of early motherhood. I don't know what I would've done without that room full of people who just got it."

"Raising our grandkids after adopting them has been humbling. So much has changed since we were young parents, and being in this book club let us look back and see where we could've done better the first time around — without anyone making us feel bad about it. Just people saying, 'you're doing your best with what you knew.' It's harder when you're older, but you also see clearly where you repeated what was done to you. We're doing better now. And so are our grandkids."