She would rinse dirty diapers in the toilet, wring them out with her bare hands, and toss them into the diaper pail as if it were no big deal. To modern parents, this seems impossible. To me, it was just life.
Why Modern Parenting Feels Like a Vacation
Parents today have incredible technology at their fingertips: self-cleaning diaper pails, scented disposable diapers, color-changing strips. My mom had none of that—just a ceramic toilet, her hands, and nerves of steel.
I can still picture her elbow-deep in toilet water, swishing a diaper like a paintbrush. She didn’t flinch, didn’t blink, just handled it. And then the infamous squeeze—the squishy, tragic shlurp as she wrung the diaper dry—was a sound burned into my memory.
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