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The kids will be fine, guilt-free motherhood for thoroughly modern women, Daisy Waugh

eng

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non fiction

The kids will be fine

Daisy Waugh

guilt-free motherhood for thoroughly modern women

Pre-chewing toddler food. Flash cards for two-year-olds. Endless hours of school gatherings to sit through in smiling silence. How did motherhood--which even under the best circumstances comes with a million small costs and compromises--become a venue for female martyrdom? How did the bar to good motherhood get set so high that it's impossible for modern mothers not to feel like they're failing? It doesn't have to be this way--and Daisy Waugh is here to tell us how to opt out of the masochism cycle. Part feminist manifesto, part hilarious rant, this book asks modern mothers to stop confusing love with subjugation. With biting wit and lancing observations, Waugh gives women permission to slough off the judgments, order in some pizza, and remember that motherhood is also about the mother