A store employee in a blue vest crouched next to her. “Ma’am? Do you need me to call an ambulance?”
The Unbecoming: Allison on Shedding the Good Mother Myth
“I want to be a person who is also a mother,” she says finally. “Not a mother who is occasionally a person.”
As told to Mutha
Then another: “Can you bring hummus for 20 kids to the 4th-grade harvest party?”
Allison grew up in a house where her own mother, Diane, was a martyr of the highest order. Diane made her own yogurt. Diane ironed her husband’s boxer shorts. Diane volunteered for every bake sale, every field trip, every church potluck, and then collapsed into a glass of white wine every night at 8:47 PM, her eyes blank as two dimes.
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A store employee in a blue vest crouched next to her. “Ma’am? Do you need me to call an ambulance?”
The Unbecoming: Allison on Shedding the Good Mother Myth mutha magazine article allison
“I want to be a person who is also a mother,” she says finally. “Not a mother who is occasionally a person.” A store employee in a blue vest crouched next to her
As told to Mutha
Then another: “Can you bring hummus for 20 kids to the 4th-grade harvest party?” “Not a mother who is occasionally a person
Allison grew up in a house where her own mother, Diane, was a martyr of the highest order. Diane made her own yogurt. Diane ironed her husband’s boxer shorts. Diane volunteered for every bake sale, every field trip, every church potluck, and then collapsed into a glass of white wine every night at 8:47 PM, her eyes blank as two dimes.