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Category Archive: Culture

Motherwell’s most popular posts of 2016

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Motherwell publishes provocative, evocative essays on all aspects of the parenting experience. Here are our most-read pieces from 2016.

December 20, 2016 Culture, Family, Parenting Challenges

The so-called simplicity of boys

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I can’t help but think ideas about simplicity mask ideas about masculinity, and what it is, and isn’t, okay to feel.
By Ashley Lefrak Grider

December 15, 2016 Culture

Perspective | In the post-Trump world, it’s up to us to raise activist kids

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After this election, if we want our children to be a part of the solution, we need to start modeling activism for them.
By Jody Allard

November 17, 2016 Culture

Parenting my black, immigrant daughter after the election

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One mother’s experience getting through the day, now that she knows Trump is the President of the United States.
By Sara Ackerman

November 9, 2016 Culture

How (not) to talk to someone else’s daughter

Sepia photograph of girl in a polka-dotted dress look shyly down
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When my daughter smiles, she is not a “beauty queen.” She smiles because she is happy.
By Marina Koestler Ruben

November 7, 2016 Culture

Perspective | Explain this tutoring thing to me, please                        

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Why do so many kids have tutors? Are the placement requirements that lax or is everybody just trying to get a leg up?
By Francie Arenson Dickman

October 15, 2016 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Is there such a thing as too many kids?

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How do we decide when a family is “complete”?
By Lauren Apfel

October 15, 2016 Culture, Family

What the Dutch can teach us about our daughters and sex

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While American parents are talking to their daughters about the risks of sex, the Dutch are talking about the joys of intimacy.
By Peggy Orenstein

October 10, 2016 Books, Culture

Why it’s important for kids to see women in power

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Hillary Clinton might not have won the presidency, but we need women to keep fighting for these roles.
By Lauren Apfel

October 10, 2016 Culture

How to parent in a world of bad news

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As parents, how do we keep moving forward in the face of one tragedy after another?
By Morgan Baden

September 5, 2016 Culture

The Gift of Failure: an author Q&A

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Jessica Lahey’s book is an incisive and eye-opening read on the pitfalls of modern-day overparenting.
By Randi Olin

August 22, 2016 Books, Culture

If you give a pig a porno

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What do you say when your tween comes home talking about Princess Leia porn? A modern-day parody.
By Francie Arenson Dickman

August 16, 2016 Culture

Childhood games that conflict with consent

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There are many subtle ways in which we teach our kids it’s okay for someone to take what they want from another’s body.
By Gail Cornwall

August 8, 2016 Culture

Don’t separate my five-year-old campers by gender

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Surely what boys and girls gain from playing together should outweigh any inconvenience of having to organize separate changing areas.
By Lauren Apfel

August 4, 2016 Culture

We are too obsessed with the mother-child bond

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Is the mother-child bond really so fragile that it threatens to fall apart at any moment without the parents’ constant vigilance?
By Olga Mecking

July 25, 2016 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Call our division of labor old-fashioned, I call it practical

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For now, what I hope my kids see is that family life is a team effort. We may run different plays than other families, but we’re only interested in the home field win.
By Ann Cinzar

July 5, 2016 Culture

Talking to my son about abortion

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One of the hardest parts of parenting is deciding when to let your children come to their own conclusions and when to steer them down a certain path, in the name of transmitting values.
By Lauren Apfel

June 27, 2016 Culture

What we tell our daughters about body hair

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What grooming habits is my daughter going to learn from me, and what will I say to her about why she might be expected to shave her legs but her brothers won’t be?
By Lauren Apfel

June 20, 2016 Culture

How motherhood made me a feminist

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Being a mother made me a feminist, it brought me face to face with ugly truths about society I would have rather not seen before.
By Lyz Lenz

June 6, 2016 Culture

Sometimes it’s painful to be a gay parent in public

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If my partner and I had been straight we might have all nodded to each other in recognition, but because we are queer, our difference is what stands out.
By Jennifer Berney

May 1, 2016 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why you shouldn’t de-friend that Trump supporter

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Without practicing curious, respectful engagement ourselves, we can’t expect to pass it on to our children.
By Sharon Holbrook

May 1, 2016 Culture

A different kind of birth

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Would having another baby after 50 salve my grief over my children leaving home?
By Andrea Jarrell

May 1, 2016 Culture

Of course I told my twins who was born first

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Does the minute matter? If they didn’t know about it, would Baby A tease Baby B less? Would she watch out for her less? My hunch is no.
By Francie Arenson Dickman

May 1, 2016 Culture, Family

On telling my kids I love them

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I don’t think we are a family who loves each other in some especially profound way. We have just made the words that stand for our love a part of the verbal dance we do.
By Lauren Apfel

May 1, 2016 Culture

The irreconcilable dreams of a working mother

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I am a mother and I am a lawyer. I don’t know how to reconcile these parts of myself, and I feel very alone in this struggle.
By Carinn Jade

May 1, 2016 Culture

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