Because sometimes being a parent means doing what’s hard.
Posted in family life, modern families, mommy guilt, mothers and work on Nov 16th, 2011
So, here’s a quick quiz: What does the United States have in common with Swaziland, Liberia, and Papua New Guinea? I’ll wait. And no, it’s not because those nations’ governments have just named pizza a vegetable, as the U.S. Congress just has. Got an answer? If you were thinking that the U.S.’s maternity [...]
Posted in family life, mommy guilt, parenting on Aug 9th, 2011
At the end of this post, you’ll see a link to a new TV show’s website. It’s called Lifechangers, and it’s with Dr. Drew Pinsky, and I’m writing this post because I was asked, by the show’s producers, to help them find a mom willing to come on the show and talk — honestly — [...]
Posted in mommy guilt, Moms on moms on Jun 3rd, 2010
So just today I got involved in an online discussion about a snippet — seriously, just a snippet — of an essay, presumably written by a writer-mom, in which the mom breezily admits that she wishes the singing-and-clapping of a typical mother-child music-and-movement class was done without her participation. She’d rather, she wrote, be sitting [...]
Posted in family life, holiday, mommy guilt on May 7th, 2010
Sigh. Facebook is at it again. well, not Facebook itself, but the community of FBers. As I type, with a day and a half until Mother’s Day descends upon us again, one of those “copy and paste this and put it in your status line if you’re a Mom!” thingies is virusing its way around. [...]
Posted in family life, mommy guilt on Oct 22nd, 2009
I keep trying to think of a clever start to this post, and all I can come up with is this: Tomorrow, I’m off on a cruise, without my husband or the boys, I will be gone a total of four days, and I don’t feel guilty. At least, I don’t feel guilty any more. [...]
