Reasons People Choose Not to Have Kids: What Reddit and YouTube Have to Say
In case you haven’t heard, many childless couples are now what is called “childfree.” It’s not that there is necessarily any impediment […]
A Mom By Any Other Name…
Motherhood is filled with thankless tasks and daily obligations. You can delegate and outsource, but the soul of motherhood is to bring […]
Where You Least Expect It
“I don’t care if you mix your peas and corn. Just don’t call it porn.” -comic strip from the early 2000s […]
Innocence
Where dips the rocky highlandOf Sleuth Wood in the lake,There lies a leafy islandWhere flapping herons wakeThe drowsy water rats;There we’ve hid […]
Why Does My Child Scream Uncontrollably?
When people envision having children, this is not one of the questions they often imagine asking. We’re not talking about the comprehensible […]
Michelle Zauner’s “Crying in H Mart”: An Illustration of the Intensive Parenting Trap
Michelle Zauner’s memoir “Crying in H Mart” is proof that most people have no business writing memoirs in their 30s. Offering a […]
Folk Music to Get You Started: Roundabout’s Singsong Pennywhistle and the Okee Dokee Brothers
Singing in the home is a civilized activity to which we should all aspire. Starved of real music and prevented from ever […]
George MacDonald’s “The Princess and the Goblin” and a Vision of Sheltering Motherhood
Are people of the British Isles exceptionally good at writing about mothers or do the British Isles have exceptionally good mothers to […]
The Childfree Movement and Other Paths to Misery
Kids are gross. Sometimes they are loud, unruly, sticky, maddening. For all these reasons and more, savvy adults are deciding not to […]
A “Mama Sabbath” for Rediscovering Joy
In her book A Mother’s Rule of Life, Holly Pierlot offers practical suggestions for bringing order to life with small children. Rather […]