[Grammar] What is wrong with this sentence?

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Like any mother, the kids tested her patience with their constant bickering, thereby causing her to raise her voice.
 
The phrase "like any mother" needs to modify the mother, but what comes right after is not "the mother" but "the kids."
 
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