Movie Club: Home Alone with Nancy Reddy

The Mother of it All

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Movie Club: Home Alone with Nancy Reddy

The Mother of it All

Dec 15, 2023

The lovely writer

Nancy Reddy

joins Miranda and Sarah to talk (and cry a little bit) about the infamous John Hughes Christmas movie extraordinaire, Home Alone. We get into the weeds of Kate McAllister’s power-mom parenting choices, realizing that this bananas plot line actually feels pretty relatable, WTF a “hyper mom” might be, and the gray areas of our collective nostalgia for all things ‘90s. The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood edited by Nancy Reddy and Emily Perez

Links:

Write More, Be Less Careful

Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah Menkedick

We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

Wine Country

Kid Culture:

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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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