Motherhood

A Cult-Crossover Event For The Ages — The year is 2022. There’s eighteen toddler girls at a Frozen themed birthday party. They’re hanging on overpaid versions of Anna and Kristoff, highly recommended entertainers among the local Facebook moms. They’re drinking ‘icicle waters,’ eating ‘snowman arms’ (read: pretzels), applying sparkle stick-ons to their temples. …

How Feeding My Baby Taught Me To Let Go Of Control — Like many women, I intended to breastfeed. I envisioned myself as a confident boundary-pusher, someone who would feed her baby straight from the tap, wherever we happened to be. Boob out at brunch? No problem. What’s that saying about the best-laid plans? My baby simply declined the breast, like a…

Until we learn to face the truth, nothing is going to change. — Society keeps no secret closer to its breast than that of bad mothers. It’s the family shadow that no one talks about. The skeleton in the closet of so many broken adult children. Bad mothers are the taboo that no one dare speak of. …

A proverb that is the backdrop to every Muslim mother’s dreams of entitled power playing — Last night, I was already half asleep, when I lazily clicked on a trailer that appeared and began watching what looked like a Turkish film. I think it was named after the main character, Ayse. So I had no idea what it was going to be about. I was about…

Envy is wrong, right? — I’m grateful for the car I’m driving. Truly and honestly. I’ve had times in my adult life where I didn’t have a vehicle to drive at all, though they were brief, and that sucks. Like, very high levels of suckage. There isn’t much worse than being stuck at home. I…

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