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Category Archive: 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

watercolor of a rainbow rainbow flag
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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

photo of three boys wrestling behind a girl sitting still
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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

Gen-X moms, it’s time to rise up

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We will fight, my daughters and I. In our black stretch pants and pink pussy hats, we will take our stand.
By Francie Arenson Dickman

January 30, 2017 Culture

My tween will only read comics, is that okay?

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In an age of instant gratification, we are all losing the ability to focus on larger amounts of text—and that’s worrisome.
By Lauren Apfel

January 25, 2017 Culture

This is what happened when I Googled “morning after pill”

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Planned Parenthood is one of the last vestiges of hope in this country.
By Abigail Rasminsky

January 13, 2017 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

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