Long Days, Short Years—Honest Talk About Parenting
Even before Covid, parenting was hard. According to physician, writer, and father of three young children, Andrew Bomback, "From day one, parenting can feel like a version of 'we are flying the plane as we build it.'" Bomback investigates the emergence of an immersive, all-in approach to raising children that has made parenting a competitive (and often not very enjoyable) sport. He considers the high costs of commercialized parenting (from the babymoon on), the pressure on mothers to have it all (and do it all), the perils of parenting during a pandemic, and much more. A nephrologist by…
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