Did your T say why she was giving you that assignment?

There are things about my mother that I vowed not to do when I was a mother, and I haven't. I just so strongly hated parts of my childhood that I didn't want my own kids to go through that. There are other ways, though, that I am like my mother. We both have a love of language and place a great deal of value on education. We also are both disorganized, bordering on being hoarders (her my so than I). I look at that part of her and hope I don't grow into that as I get older. Already I see that I am worse now than 20 years ago, so it scares me. I'm fighting against it, but it's hard going.