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The End of Mom Guilt
Il est très déprimant de voir que les femmes ont également succombé au mythe de la carrière. « Ma carrière est très importante pour moi », énoncent ces dames aux carrières nouvelles de mégalos. Comment tyranniser une coterie d’idiots dans une grande société peut-il devenir plus important que de jouer avec ses enfants, de voir des amis, sa famille,
... See moreTom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être libre: Dans un monde absurde (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
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helping someone achieve their dreams is not the same thing as achieving your own. Or put another way, making someone else the focus of your ambition is not the same as having a self-centered, work-centered ambition. The two are different. One is selfish, the other is selfless. And lately I’ve been thinking: why is it so difficult—maybe impos
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I used to watch as she read Ms. magazine, sitting upright, at the dining room table. She came of age during second-wave feminism, when women kind of had a choice and kind of didn’t. This made my mom’s ambivalence about motherhood starker and more insistent: It’s within the realm of possibility that my mom’s life could have gone a different, more am... See more
Elise Loehnen • Opinion | The Lies Mothers Tell Themselves and Their Children
Parents who took her ambition as an indictment of their own lack of ambition.
Ryan Holiday • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)
Today's ramped-up parental authority rests on three pillars: science, safety, and achievement. What we ambitious parents know about the human brain tells us that children need to be placed in stimulating and productive environments if they are going to reach their full potential. What we know about the world tells us that it is a dangerous place: t... See more