Write Like a Mother
how to do a hard thing when you're already doing another hard thing
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"It is Insane to Me that People Parent in One- or Two-Person Groups" (opens the original)
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Of all the indignities of middle-aged parenthood, the one that caught me most unawares was the sudden realization that I am now the mother in the phrase “not your mother’s ___.”I suppose everyone comes to this destabilizing knowledge – that yours is no longer the desired state – in one way or another and this is hardly my first or only encounter. But I think it reflects a particular transition, from young mom to old mom, that has more to do with my children’s ages than my own. With younge
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