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When your handmade celebration efforts feel unappreciated

I spent three hours making homemade decorations for my daughter's birthday party and she said she wanted store-bought ones like her friends have instead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between authentic expression and social expectations reveals itself most painfully in our most loving gestures.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Festivals and celebrations?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.