Why Don't We Tell Women The Truth About Motherhood?

The truth about motherhood is that you have to design and create a working formula for your own life. Someone else's DNA isn't your story or ...

As a mum of three, I still remember vividly after having my first baby, the feeling of being tricked somehow along the way.

When women become mothers, they lose every other part of themselves. I remember growing up and this was one of the biggest reasons I didn't want ...

For some reason, mothers often choose to keep mum about the challenges of motherhood. I am not sure why. Perhaps it is denial, shame, ...

So many of us wonder if we are getting this parenting thing right, and most of us don't know where to turn for support. Generations ago children ...

Infact, women are often shamed if they express their lack of interest in having children because how could A WOMAN not want CHILDREN?! My mother ...

I don't quite know myself anymore when looking in the mirror. The stretch marks, loose skin, the weight gained naturally during pregnancy ...

They don't understand how other mothers are functioning at such a high level of normalcy while they are also waking up with a nursing infant.

As the baby's chipmunk-esque voice threatens her ("What did I say will happen if you don't do as I say? ... women are too delicate to be told the ...

Society praises motherhood and makes it seem like some kind of goal to aspire to. Women are often pressured into having children and even ...

You think you know what motherhood is, but you have no idea until you are in the trenches and it is too late to turn back.

— speak to a paradoxical truth: even as our culture exalts motherhood in its Platonic ideal, it simultaneously denigrates the mothers who ...

To my mind, it's further evidence that societally we don't particularly value mothers. I suspect if that changed fewer mums might feel the need ...

As you gather a bouquet of flowers for your mother and prepare to bring her scrambled eggs in bed this weekend, consider some new research ...

It benefits no one for women to become mothers only to be miserable and unhappy, trapped in a choice they were misled into making. Motherhood is ...

... truth in other tales of parenting woe—the sleepless nights, the tantrums—I also know that these things are really only half (perhaps even ...

Not all women are happy to be mothers. And when it comes to abortion, it is also wrong of pro-lifers to assume that keeping a baby will always ...

Don't twist her message into a high concept mommy myth that if women outperform their peers by being smarter, savvier and harder working, they' ...

Before, I was looking down on my hard-working mother and father, and all my siblings. I felt they were brainwashed. But they weren't the ones ...

There's a lot wrong with modern motherhood. The cold truth is that we don't want to admit it, or confess that we can't handle it and don't ...