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Category Archive: Culture

Navigating my ambition as a single mother

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My own aspirations weren’t as important as buying groceries. I had my daughters 80 percent of the time. By Katherine Sargent

October 4, 2017 Culture

Following the fishing line of my ambition

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Before I had kids, my mother told me: “Your career is the only thing you will ever have that is entirely your own.” By Adrienne So

October 3, 2017 Culture

Yes, we might be overparenting, but it’s not all bad

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Not everything modern parents are doing is backfiring: our kids are tolerant, empowered and closer to us than ever. By Mary Janevic

September 28, 2017 Culture

My middle child’s quest to be declared “officially amazing”

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If birth order has anything to do with it, our six-year-old just might have a decent chance at setting a Guinness World Record. By Kate Lemery

September 27, 2017 Culture, Family

Maybe it’s okay to judge parents after all

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Judgmental comments can be a reflection of our desire to connect, to become a village once more.
By Gail Cornwall

September 14, 2017 Culture

Does my teen need a label for her sexual orientation?

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Maybe she will meet the “right” guy or girl. Maybe she will never be interested in sex.
By Melanie Lopez

September 12, 2017 Culture

My obligation to my children when the world is on fire

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I actively chose hope in having a child, and when you choose hope you also choose despair.
By Shannon Lell

September 9, 2017 Culture

Choosing to have children, choosing not to

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Motherhood has become so consuming to me that I find it hard not to project onto others a desire for the sense of purpose it offers.
By Lauren Apfel

August 31, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Challenging the stereotypes of the invisible workload

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From sitcoms to memes, the mom runs the show while the dad can hardly remember the kids’ birthdays.
By Kathleen Siddell

August 9, 2017 Culture

On being a part-time working mom

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Mothers are not static entities. We evolve in this role, as in any other.
By Lauren Apfel

July 25, 2017 Culture

To my daughter who thinks she might be gay

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There’s so much against you: the world’s cruel prejudices, its judgment.
By April Vázquez

July 24, 2017 Culture

Sex-ed for kindergarteners? Yes, please

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The sooner a child has a framework to understand the nature of healthy relationships, the better.
By Lauren Apfel

July 6, 2017 Culture

The day I wanted to buy all of the President Barbies

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Are we all so jaded and depressed by Hillary’s loss that we’ve just said: to hell with it, mermaid Barbies from here on out?
By Carrie Friedman

June 29, 2017 Culture

An editor’s perspective: the personal parenting essay is not dead

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Whatever the political climate, we will continue to write about bruised nipples, maternal ambivalence, how to raise kids who believe love is love.
By Lauren Apfel

June 15, 2017 Culture

My son wants to be a cheerleader

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Being an advocate for a cause in general is quite a separate thing from letting your own kid be different.
By Kimberley Moran

June 12, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Yes, I know my kid is average

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“You’re not going to be good at everything,” I say. It’s a standard line in our house.
By Lauren Apfel

June 1, 2017 Culture

Top surgery “show and tell” with my transgender son

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He’s passing as a boy now—as long as he binds his breasts.
By Katrin Grace

May 11, 2017 Culture, Family, Obstacles

No, I don’t want your unsolicited parenting advice

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Momsplaining perpetuates the myth that someone out there is getting this parenting thing right.
By Carla Naumburg

May 9, 2017 Culture

What happened when my daughter and I stopped straightening our hair

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For black women, wearing our hair in its natural state was—and still is, to some extent—considered defiant.
By Margaret Auguste

March 30, 2017 Culture

Dress codes: who gets to decide what a girl should wear?

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Leggings, spaghetti straps, midriff shirts—what’s the harm? Motherwell’s cultural conversation with parenting experts Lisa Damour, Jessica Lahey, and Peggy Orenstein.

March 27, 2017 Culture

The 10 ways my sons and daughter are not so different at all

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Is my daughter a “tomboy” or a “girly girl”? She is neither and she is both.
By Lauren Apfel

March 22, 2017 Culture

Teaching kids that women can work and be moms at the same time

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We were unwittingly showing our daughter that being a mother excludes other possibilities.
By K.C. Willivee

February 28, 2017 Culture

When reading at grade level is not good enough

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None of the parents I know are copping to having a kid who is average.
By Christie Tate

February 16, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why politics matters to me in the college selection process

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I want my children to be part of a college community that is more in line with the ideologies of #Imwithher than #MAGA.
By Randi Olin

February 14, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

There is no room for mom guilt in the resistance

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Yes, moms need to fight the current political situation. But they also need to take care of themselves.
By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco

February 7, 2017 Culture

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