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In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communitiesClose your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her roots are never showing and she installed that gleaming kitchen backsplash herself (watch her TikTok for DIY tips) . She seamlessly melds work, wellness and home; and during the depths of the pandemic, she also ran remote school and woke up at 5 a.m. to meditate.You may read this and think it's bananas; you have probably internalized much of it. Journalist Jessica Grose sure had. After she failed to meet every one of her own expectations for her first pregnancy, she devoted her career to revealing how morally bankrupt so many of these ideas and pressures are.
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I'm the editor of Lenny, the email newsletter and website co-founded by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner. My essays and reported features have appeared in the New York Times, New York, Bloomberg Businessweek, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Slate and many other publications. I was formerly a senior editor at Slate and an editor at Jezebel. I live in Brooklyn with my husband and two daughters and my permanent fascinations include true crime, powerful ladies, and bears.
