Mothers Need to Lead the Feminist Revolution

Growing up, I often heard my mother repeat the phrase: “you can do everything, just not all at once.” I am sure she said the same thing to our brother, but I knew she was really speaking to my sister and I, children born in the 1980s, just a decade or so shy of the rise of modern feminism and the birth of the idea that women can do whatever men can do. My own mother gave up her career […]

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Can I Skip the Tooth Fairy?

  Every toothless picture posted. Every report of another child coming to school with a missing tooth. Every debate about how much is too much for loose teeth. Every news of a wiggly canine or incisor hanging by a thin piece of gum. All of it reminds me my days of full sets of baby teeth are numbered. And I just want to skip the tooth fairy. My oldest is five, and as parents do with each passing day, I […]

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