Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule their children into activities and classes. Similarly, some at-home mothers,... can make at- home mothering into a bigger deal than it is, over stimulating, overeducating, and overwhelming their children with purposeful attention.
Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers. - Jean Marzollo
Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.
- Jean Marzollo
The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive ques… - Jean Marzollo
The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive ques…
Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt … - Jean Marzollo
Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt …
In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples fin… - Jean Marzollo
In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples fin…
You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't respectthe natural parentin… - Jean Marzollo
You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't respectthe natural parentin…
Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, over… - Jean Marzollo
Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, over…
If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of t… - Jean Marzollo
If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of t…
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