All Entries in the "Moms" Category

Fly Away — Susan Sawyers

Emotion is one of the things I neglected to schedule the week the 14 year-old headed north to sleep away camp. After a series of attempts to manipulate the family schedule in order to accompany her to the camp bus meeting sight, we opted to send her to Toronto as an unaccompanied minor, or UM [...]

True Mom Confession: I’m saying NO to YES. Romy Lassally

I confess, I started off the summer with a commitment to myself (and unbeknownst to them…my family) that I would loosen up and try to say YES more often than I did during the school year. It worked for a few weeks . . .

Mom to my mom, ever mom to me. — Trudy Goodman

So before I left, I held her. She rested against me, almost in my lap. Her body felt kind of shaky, and small, and she kept murmuring motherly things to me, her voice clear and sure, repeating them to me . . .

like a chant . . .

A Mindful Instant Message — Amy Spies and her daughter Paris

Here’s an IM between me and my daughter.
Amy(8:05:54 PM): Hi there.
Amy (8:07:39 PM): I though t we could chat a bit about what it means to be a mindful mom. I know you’ve been exposed to this world through myself and Susan Kaiser Greenland and helping her and Trudy Goodman teach meditative arts to kids when [...]

Alice and Rebecca Walker Clash: Do Feminist Mothers Have to Choose Between Dreams and Diapers?

What I take issue with, and I am not alone, is Rebecca’s black and white take on mothering — there is her mother, the selfish careerist, and then there is her, the new mom who argues that all that should matter to a young woman with children is “a happy family.” What happened to the self-preserving and child-loving in between?

The Ritual Tribal Abandonment of Mothers - Jeanne Denney

Yes, it is about tribal fear of touching into this need and sometimes this pain. Yes, it is about feeling alone with a task that feels impossible to do well alone. Yes, the tribe has resigned from its role in the life of my children and from its needed and necessary role in supporting me.