When I recently wrote an article about products replacing parents I failed to mention this is just the tip of the ice-berg. Today, as a culture we are outsourcing more and more of our parenting responsibilities not only to products but to other people in the form…
The Australian recently published an article advising that breastfeeding can help reduce the risk of SIDS. Unfortunately, it has been met with the anti-breastfeeder brigade that implies that breastfeeding mothers are on a mission to make non-breastfeeding mothers feel guilty. These women who accuse advocates of…
Mother guilt. Is this merely a term to describe mothers with perfectionist tendencies? Or does this term impact ALL mothers regardless of race, religion or parenting style? Is the perfect or good mother a myth? Where does our guilt come from? Does it stem from pressure…