In the months prior to giving birth, she read every book on child-rearing she could find. In retrospect, Sun Tzu's Art of War would have been a better choice, or perhaps a field study of rabid primates.
Naturally, this isn't how she'd expected to feel about motherhood, but watching her baby daughter morph into a teenager has been an alarming experience, like cresting the first hill of a rollercoaster just as she realized her seatbelt was broken.