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What We Really Want for Mother’s Day?
Forget the brunch and flowers. Yup. Paid parental leave would be at the top of our list.
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To Mom, Warts and All
No mother is perfect. But ultimately we should honor mothers for one thing — trying. My mother was a beautiful, giving, kind and generous person. She was also a product of the Jim Crow South, and...
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Reese Witherspoon Can Get Lost in “Wild” Without Me
After mom my died, I swore off Mother’s Day. I resented that my husband bought me cards and signed our daughter’s name. When you shove your gut full of emotions, it’s difficult to gently pull them...
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I Was That Little Girl Under the Table: Reflections on Mad Men and Life
The truth was that my parents probably shouldn’t have had children: like Betty and Don Draper, they did it because it was expected. For years, the lack of my parents’ loving kindness made me risk...
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Betty Draper is Finally Likable. There’s Just One Problem With That.
She wasn’t the perfect mom. Maybe she was the anti-mom. But I loved Betty Draper for all her contradictions and imperfections. And she doesn’t deserve her fate. If you’re a longtime fan of Betty...
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Wife Bonuses, Mad Men and The Mommy Wars
Mad Men and “wife bonuses” have something in common. In a recent Sunday issue of the New York Times two very different articles on women and their households appeared. One, “Poor Little Rich Woman,”...
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Quit Telling Me It’s Not Cool That I’m Happy for Summer … and Having My Kids...
These three are ten kinds of crazy and I like it. No matter how humorous some parenting takes are on how hard it is to have kids, we are still putting out there in the world that children are...
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When Did Feminism Throw June Cleaver Under the Bus?
And when will we notice that it backfired? When I was a girl, growing up in the 1970s with a feminist mother and feminist aunts, a consistent message of the women’s movement was correcting the term...
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The Bloodiest Front in The ‘Mommy Wars’ is Within
Knowing what I know now about myself, my child and my years as a stay at home mom, I wish I had kept working. Forget the kids. Working is better for moms. “I can give up my life for six months.” Those...
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How I Learned to Mother Through My Father
The trust between us was strung together by his deep emotional engagement and my sense that no matter the circumstance, he would catch me if I fell. Unbeknownst to me at that nimble age, I was learning...
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Missing Daddy
Those silly peanuts. They are the memory that brings my father back full force into the fluorescent lighting of a hamburger joint, just the kind of place he would have loved. I am sitting in a Five...
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Father’s Day: A Day for Other People
I’ve never thought much about Father’s Day because I’ve never had to. My father died a month after I turned five, but my memories of him are vivid and specific. Most years, Father’s Day comes and goes...
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Congress, Give Dad a Break for Father’s Day!
Only 12 companies on Working Mother magazine’s 100 Best list give equal time to dads and moms alike, and for five of those it’s a stingy one week. The annual June Father’s Day shopping binge is at its...
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Hillary Clinton and Our Gendered Presidency
When men say to me that the presidency has nothing to do with gender I become unglued. The presidency has everything to do with gender. “Hillary needs to be trashed at every opportunity that presents...
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Working Moms, Don’t Use That Harvard Study To Validate You!
We don’t need to wrap ourselves in the banner of carefully constructed, peer–reviewed articles in academic journals in order to assert that, really, our work lives are absolutely fine, both for...
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Hey Whiny Parents, Get Over Yourselves!
Motherhood is the only job you are guaranteed to fail at. No matter how good you are. Own it. Full Disclosure: I do not like whiners. Especially adult whiners. Especially adults who constantly whine...
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I Was That Little Girl Under the Table: Reflections on Mad Men and Life
The truth was that my parents probably shouldn’t have had children: like Betty and Don Draper, they did it because it was expected. For years, the lack of my parents’ loving kindness made me risk...
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Betty Draper is Finally Likable. There’s Just One Problem With That.
She wasn’t the perfect mom. Maybe she was the anti-mom. But I loved Betty Draper for all her contradictions and imperfections. And she doesn’t deserve her fate. If you’re a longtime fan of Betty...
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Wife Bonuses, Mad Men and The Mommy Wars
Mad Men and “wife bonuses” have something in common. In a recent Sunday issue of the New York Times two very different articles on women and their households appeared. One, “Poor Little Rich Woman,”...
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