added by Daniel Wentsch and · updated 6d ago
Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often
- Our culture is really doing a ten out of ten job in caring in the worst possible ways. There is no infrastructure to support parents of caregivers, so care makes you poor and exhausts you. (Solution: Pay caregivers! Universal and affordable childcare and eldercare!) Parenting has become more instrumental than it used to be: kids are a project, anot... See more
from "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not To Lose Myself In It." by Anne Helen Petersen
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