Every parent discovers, sooner or later, that the parenting journey is full of surprises, some remarkably pleasant and some, well, not so much.  Haven’t many of us yearned for the nonexistent owner’s manual to help us navigate those unusually challenging situations that parenting somehow manages to produce?  Laura Rossi Totten shares her unique take on the parenting lessons she has learned, courtesy of some very special moments with her daughter.


Laura Rossi Totten lives in Jamestown, Rhode Island and runs Laura Rossi Public Relations.  Rossi Totten has two decades of public relations and book publishing experience.   She blogs about her unexpected gifts from motherhood at mysocalledsensorylife.com

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