In this brief segment, the speaker recounts a piece of advice they received: parents are inevitably going to make mistakes that negatively affect their children, so the best approach is to aim to cause as little damage as possible. The speaker describes how internalizing this mantra felt liberating, allowing them to release the pressure of perfection in parenting.
I remember one of them said to me something that, you know, sometimes it's a short statement or a mantra or something. They said, listen, they said, you are guaranteed by the parent-child relationship to screw up your kids. So just do as little damage as possible. And I have to tell you that, you know, it was freeing in a way because like you said, it just kind of like let you let it go.
