\u201cOnly later,\u201d Joan Didion wrote of her daughter, \u201cdid I see that I had been raising her as a doll.\u201d Grieving, heart broken over the sudden and tragic loss of her family (detailed in the moving books A Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights), she was almost certainly being too hard on herself, yet\u2026Aren\u2019t we all a little guilty of this?\u2709\ufe0f Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com\U0001f4f1 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube