Written by Annika Tornatore (Edited by M. Joy Rose) According to a recent article in Psychology Today, American mothers are challenged to balance work struggles and their home lives with increasing levels of stress. At the same time, cultural messaging about parenthood often glorifies motherhood and does not reflect the inherent conflicts between the personalContinue reading “Childless By Choice?”
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A Gaggle, A Chorus, or a Consternation of Mothers
Thoughts in blog-form by Rosalind Howell There is a picture book that’s currently very popular with my three young children, called The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett. In it a duck finds an egg to hatch having apparently failed to lay her own.This is observed closely by a group of various birds (including a parrot,Continue reading “A Gaggle, A Chorus, or a Consternation of Mothers”