Join me over on Medium where I've written a post that reflects on ten years since Anne Marie Slaughter's original 2012 piece "Why Women Still Can't Have it All." Nearly a decade later, women are still thinking they need to do it all, mostly because the Internet wants us to believe it is our job to do so. I reflect on this toxic and antiquated narrative. I think the tones of this piece will resonate with your readership, highlighting how social media is holding us back from making progress in the modern mother's quest to be recognized for who she is, not what she does.
Last week, I almost killed my daughter. It started off as really any other week ever does. My husband had been travelling pretty much non-stop for nearly the entire month. Whether we wanted to or not, we were all falling into a fairly regular rhythm without him, at least Monday-Friday. With school and activities and for better or worse, the days seemed to move rather quickly but by evening all three of us were stretched thin. Collectively, we all seemed to peek at maximum crabbiness somewhere around 6pm. It was shortly after this time last Wednesday night that I brought the kids upstairs to help them get washed up for bed. My daughter had an upset stomach for most of the day but I hadn’t thought much of it. She was otherwise happy and playing and generally herself. I did know that she was very tired. Still, we were a good hour and a half from her usual bedtime of around 8pm. I put her in the bath and let it start to fill and left the room to go start the shower for my...
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