{"id":302032,"date":"2025-09-20T21:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlslife.com\/?p=302032"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:44:58","slug":"dear-carol-im-a-perfectionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/life\/302032\/dear-carol-im-a-perfectionist\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dear Carol, I’m A Perfectionist”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Carol,<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I really like having my room be in order. If my sister sits on my bed after I make it, I get mad, then she gets mad.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

-I’m a perfectionist<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dear I\u2019m A Perfectionist,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sometimes I wish I were tidier, because my office sure wouldn\u2019t pass a neatness test. Other times, I\u2019m glad I\u2019m not a perfectionist, because when you expect perfection, you are going to fall short. Maybe one reason why I\u2019m good at languages is because I like to learn and don\u2019t mind making mistakes. It\u2019s summer, so go easy on yourself. Next time your sister walks into your room, strike up a conversation rather than focusing on the fresh creases in your bedcovers. And aim to be happy instead of perfect. Because, psst, there\u2019s no such thing as perfect.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Carol Weston is the author of 16 books, including\u00a0Girltalk<\/em>,\u00a0Speed of Life<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Ava and Pip<\/em>. Follow her on Insta\u00a0@carolwestonnyc<\/a>\u00a0and visit\u00a0carolweston.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Want more sibling advice? Check out these Dear Carol articles…
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\ud83d\udc8c \u201cDear Carol, My parents always take my brother\u2019s side in fights\u201d<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Carol, I really like having my room be in order. If my sister sits on my bed after I make it, I get mad, then she gets mad. -I’m a perfectionist Dear I\u2019m A Perfectionist, Sometimes I wish I were tidier, because my office sure wouldn\u2019t pass a neatness test. Other times, I\u2019m glad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":302033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,284,1032],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-dear-carol","category-family"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}