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Judy Batalion

Judy Batalion is writing a memoir about motherhood, daughterhood and the mess in between.

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I’ve become my hoarder mother: How my kids turned me into a pathological packrat

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Let’s stop talking to our kids: I know communication between parents and children is important, but can we also learn to occasionally shut up?

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My hoarding anxiety

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Hoarding: A love story

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