“Can we see our relationships as acts of cooperation, not as a competition? Why should it take a pandemic to remind some parents of the pleasures of actually being parents? Can more parents be freed to be parents and stay home for a few years even when there isn’t a pandemic?”
Read More“Some of us are pushing back against the careerist survival-of-the-fittest time and soul famine.”
Read More“What if we changed our definition of success so none of us faced social pressures or economic pressures during our children’s little-child years (say birth to four years old and preschool) to conform to a pro-business, one-size-fits-all, Goldman Sachs’— style model of life focused on our job title?”
Read More“Why aren’t both parents’ jobs flexible enough to accommodate parenthood during, say, the years one to four of any child?”
Read More“What’s changed? Lots. Teens living in the ever-darkening shadow of their phones; degrading misogynist, often racist and violent porn and rape-culture invading childhoods; disconnected online ‘life’; the continuing impact of divorce as a ‘normal’ event for millions of children; the well-known pathologies of our disgracefully failing educational system.”
Read More“We need to stop pretending we can do anything to kids and offer parents no good choices or support and it’ll all turn out fine.”
Read More“When our grandchildren were in school before the virus hit, I’d find myself comparing notes with a throng of parents, people half my age, while waiting around for the dismissal bell at our local public school.”
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