The question of whose life is more luxurious, who is more selfish, who is lazier, etc., is a genuine distraction from truly important issues that affect all families. Last month, Allison B. Carter posted a piece in the New York Times about her decision to be a stay-at-home mom. It’s not a “luxury,” she argued. […]
Isn’t this movement away from us and toward independence the central goal of parenting? I started my son in full-time daycare a few months ago, when he was almost 2. Before that, my partner and I traded off childcare responsibilities and got a ton of help from a nanny that came a few days a […]
For so long, we’ve heard how working mothers struggle with juggling it all, having it all, and creating that work-life balance. Who ever said that men don’t want the same things? If you ask a working mother what her top priority is, she would probably tell you that it’s her family. Ask a working dad, […]
Because we don’t ask the questions, are we depriving dads of the opportunity to share their challenges? Are we insulting men by implying that parenthood matters less than it does to their spouses? Few things annoy me more than when we take the accomplishments of brilliant, creative, ambitious women and boil them down into a […]
