On the Myth of Motherhood as Self-Improvement

But the scary truth is that there isn’t a right way to be a mother, there’s just what we believe. So, the next time you read in a forum that sleep training is “abusive” or see a Facebook post claiming attachment parenting is “anti-feminist”, just keep in mind that as long as you feed, clothe and love your child, the rest really is just your choice,

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There’s a reason I associated the forums with conservative types. It’s not particularly popular (or easy) to frame parenthood as aspirational when you hold the concerns of the left. At least not in my world. Sure, you can have kids as a leftist, but the primary conversations surrounding parenthood that I participated in concerned its problems: the

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