Episode 1: Can We Reject The Crushing Time Pressure Of Motherhood?

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Episode 1: Can We Reject The Crushing Time Pressure Of Motherhood?

The Mother of it All

Nov 15, 2023

Miranda and Sarah discuss Oliver Burkeman's book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and their own struggles with attention, loss, and letting go.

Links:

Olver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks

Allison P Davis on friends with kids

Why I Don’t Feel Guilty for Not Playing with My Kids

Sarah’s parenting column, Good Enough Parent

Alison Gopnik What do Babies Think?

Judith Viorst’s Necessary Losses

The Happiness Project

Kid-culture Recs:

Harriet the Spy

Mac B Kid Spy

Project Runway Jr

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The Mother of it All

We are Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, two friends, mothers and professional writers on the parenting beat. The Mother of it All is our place to go deep into the culture of modern motherhood and have the conversations that truly challenge, feed and excite us. Expect warmth, humor and over-considered takes on hot topics, fresh takes on old ones, expert guests and good times. We're diving into the grey areas beyond the tropes — the wine moms, the rage moms, the anything moms — and instead spending real time with the ideas that help us grow as mothers and people in this cultural moment.

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