I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
Regina KingRead
A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.
Interpretation
A Modern Mom prioritizes her own well-being in addition to her family responsibilities.
Regina King's quote emphasizes that being a Modern Mom transcends conventional roles of multitasking between work and family. It highlights the importance of self-care, suggesting that a woman's internal and external health is crucial for her and her family's well-being.
In practice
During a parenting workshop, I shared a quote by Regina King to encourage mothers to prioritize their own health.
I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
I want to be around to see my son grow up and to enjoy my grandkids, which means I need to make my health a priority.
If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.
A lot of black women still carry a lot of pain when they see black men with women who aren't black, and that's really unfortunate that that could make us so upset. It has to do with self esteem.
It's kind of crazy to think that I've now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought my ex and I back to a friendship that helped us become great co-parents.
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
No parent should have their child die before he or she does.
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
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