Q. I'm a perfectionist mom with four children. My 15-year-old stepdaughter and my 11-year-old stepson do not live with us but visit regularly. My other two children are girls, and they live with us. One is 5, and the other just turned 1. I try not to let my quirks spill onto my children, but they invariably do. My daughter's kindergarten teacher said my daughter is very hard on herself and is very detail-oriented. Her first question to us at our parent-teacher conference was, "Who is the ...

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