The Crooked Branch
But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This exp
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How it started
Wilder was losing his shit, yet again, and I wanted to help Lauren by taking the kids to the playground. But Wilder refused, so I said I’d move his body - a trick we learned in daycare - but he slipped out of my grip like a lil eel and was now sprinting all over the house that sounded like a baby crying because there is also a 6mo bab
... See moreSeeking reassurance during that first year of parenting two, I turned to the work of the pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. He is perhaps best known for his concept of the “good-enough mother,” the caregiver who, through sometimes failing and frustrating their child, ultimately facilitates the development of the child’s ability to co
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