Word: motherism
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...plans for Father's Day? No. I try not to celebrate Father's Day; it's my wife who insists on doing it. If she can ratchet up Father's Day, it means Mother's Day is that much bigger. That's the only reason it gets celebrated. It's a phony holiday...
...Ayelet Waldman's book Bad Mother seems kind of like a gender reversal of your book: she boasted that she loves her husband more than her children and wants to have a career. And she was pilloried for this. Is there a double standard there? Of course. There is no question that it is easier to outrage people by celebrating one's bad motherhood than celebrating one's bad fatherhood. People cut men more slack. Ayelet is writing a much more controversial book than I ever could unless I said something like, "I intend to kill my children." (Read...
...Helicopter parenting is a luxury of a wealthy society, a society in which families are smaller and parents actually have the luxury of micromanaging their children. I think one day we are going to be deluged with memoirs about how my life was screwed up because my mother managed every inch of it. I think what you are seeing is a spasm of a response to that, though. I think that there are lots of parents who would agree that you've just got to chill a bit more...
...Born March 25, 1958, in Roseville, Calif. Grew up in Nevada. With no help from her ex-husband, Ensign's mother once supported him and two siblings while working at a Reno, Nev., casino. His family moved to Las Vegas when Ensign...
...election, I attended a large and metaphoric Mousavi rally - someone had cut the electricity, so the candidate couldn't speak - in the city of Kharaj, about an hour west of Tehran. The cabbie who drove us back to Tehran said his parents were divided on the election. "My mother supports Mousavi, and my father supports Ahmadinejad," he said. "I was uncertain until I saw them debate. Ahmadinejad seemed stronger. I don't think I would want Mousavi negotiating with other governments...