Mistakes: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Mistakes from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores how mistakes live inside parenting not as isolated errors, but as moments shaped by fatigue, care, fear, love, and responsibility unfolding over years. It looks at why parenting mistakes often feel heavier than any others, how they replay long after children have moved on, and how they arise not from neglect but from pressure and deep attachment. Rather than offering advice or solutions, the conversation names what many parents already carry, the way hindsight reshapes memory, how responsibility stretches across time, and how mistakes soften when they are seen clearly within the wider field of everyday care.