Mothering: If you're into natural, holistic parenting, Mothering is the place to find support.
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Your faking it is the sweetest mothering he's ever known.
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Mothering, like aging, is not for the faint of heart.
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Full-time mothering — like stripping and prostitution — is hard work.
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I'm the mothering type — you don't want me to mother you.
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Ignored it and put every ounce into mothering my sweet girl.
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What's more, the "intensive mothering" or "helicopter parenting" approach can backfire.
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Mothering happens with anyone who is investing in supporting and caretaking.
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When did the Real Housewives franchises become so obsessed with mothering?
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Turns out, it had something to do with her mothering skills.
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Her own childhood has informed her hands-on mothering, she said.
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If there was a mothering switch, I hadn't yet found the dimmer.
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I think there are other ways of mothering and living my purpose.
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I felt like I had to defend myself for mothering my children.
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I ignored it and put every ounce into mothering my sweet girl.
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But I cannot figure out how to let go of mothering them.
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An evolutionary biologist, Dr. Lord is an old hand at wolf mothering.
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They talk of mothering their nieces, nephews and the offspring of friends.
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Perhaps I wanted credit for mothering more than I wanted to mother.
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What real-life mothering skills did you draw on to play Susan?
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Still, one stood out: She was obsessed with the subject of mothering.
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"Commenters were very opinionated about her mothering," says Blanchard, the UNC professor.
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I also was not prepared for the challenges of mothering as an introvert.
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In addition to a fortune, she also inherited Joya's overbearing method of mothering.
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But when women do it, it's because we are sweet, kind, and mothering.
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Instead, Ramona clearly meant to shame her "friend" and criticize her mothering skills.
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People have been putting up with overactive mothering ever since there were mothers.
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Dearborn traces Hemingway's "persistent confusion about gender identity" to Grace's androgynous mothering style.
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"I've always had a mothering nature," she said in an interview with People.
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For example, in psychological astrology, the moon represents the mother and mothering, she says.
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"What I believe in is a mothering energy," Doyle told me backstage in Cincinnati.
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Focus on mothering yourself this year with a balance of treats and healthy boundaries.
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The other revelation: Kourtney's spirit animal is a panther, because it's secretive and mothering.
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My mom gave me this powerful sense of discipline, family, mothering and detail orientation.
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Researchers wanted to see if the women's brain changes affected anything related to mothering.
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Madonna's more than just on reasonably good terms with son Rocco ... she's mothering again.
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I had no feminine mothering and softness, and I was very harsh on myself.
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This is far from the first time that Abraham's followers have questioned her mothering skills.
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"The mothering instinct is just very strong in most animals," Bassinger told the Wytheville Enterprise.
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Her goals can stretch beyond marriage and mothering, to helping others and serving her country.
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But despite the trickiness of balancing work and mothering schedules, Eubanks knows that she's lucky.
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Quoting Myrtha's steps with large-shouldered grace and delicacy, Mr. Lara is ultrafeminine and mothering.
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There's no mothering instinct, they don't hang out and wait for the eggs to hatch.
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But my nephews transformed my resentment of mothering into hope, and I fell in love.
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My husband left work early to voice his support of me and my mothering skills.
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For anyone who loves the spotlight, mothering can be an ideal role — for a while.
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After all that time caring for her other kids, mothering appears to come easy for Inge.
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I have a full week ahead with mothering and appointments and things to look forward to.
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Wanting to honor Sophie's amazing mothering skills, the sanctuary hosted a celebration for the pregnant pig.
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"What I'm doing today is still mothering his legacy," McBath told voters at an October event.
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Rarely do they connect this to the broader crisis of caring and of mothering in particular.
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I felt, I think, what just about every woman feels when someone attacks her mothering: ashamed.
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They have always worked, and their work has never been a separate thing from their mothering.
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But I make a point of not mothering him too much and doing everything for him.
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Once they have children, sociologists say, mothers feel under intense pressure to go into overdrive at mothering.
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Rather, the emotional heft of the installment comes from Maeve's unspoken feelings about family, mothering, and love.
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Cersei's bed has been made since she was a child, and her mothering days are seemingly over.
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She was using the language of mothering to advocate for expanding civil rights, rather than curtailing them.
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And they also know we're out there taking care of people, and that's part of our mothering.
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Cured with citrus and dappled with sun-dried tomato, the brassy fish dish comes with some mothering.
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And I know, too, that there can be styles of mothering that are tremendously destructive and problematic.
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Over the next few weeks I would have to delegate both mothering and doctoring to other people.
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It was exciting, in a way—it wasn't this nice, warm, mothering or fathering kind of relationship.
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He advised people to keep away from elderly parents on Sunday, which is Mothering Sunday in Britain.
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Sam handles all this with a mix of free-range mothering, brash humor and improv tough love.
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And apparently the media — ugh, that mothering media — has been giving him a hard time about it.
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People become parents in ways we couldn't have imagined and mothering and parenthood looks a million different ways.
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Mothering children when you can predict their futures sounds "not that easy," to quote the original theme song.
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The female brain, on the other hand, is specialized for making friends, mothering, gossip and "reading" a partner.
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But one of the oft-unspoken topics of mothering is that nursing is much tougher than it looks.
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"Good mothering is defending the new mother against the subtle pressure of a bottle-dominated culture," Dr. Raphael wrote.
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The running hypothesis is that shrinking might actually be a sign of the brain honing its circuits for mothering.
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Waldman, who was born in Israel, is a former lawyer who now writes mystery novels and essays about mothering.
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Our tagline is, 'Two liberated mamas smashing the patriarchy one candid conversation around healing through mothering at a time.
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While Melissa dissed sister-in-law Teresa Giudice for her mothering skills in "The Public Shaming Of Melissa," Mrs.
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The joy you'll find in being in your body, in sexuality and sensuality, in service, in art, in mothering.
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And while that's all well and good, we'd advise NOT to model her entire mothering strategy off of Lorelai.
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And there's nothing wrong with borrowing from leaders like Ardern and bringing some healing and mothering to the mix.
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Erin has taken to mothering like a natural; she started caring for the cubs immediately after they were born.
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Women of color have performed the mothering work for white children, resulting in the neglect with their own children.
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So then, O.K., a mothering guide for middle-class, heterosexual women who went to college and are gainfully employed.
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The prime minister will be trying to combine mothering and traveling again, this time hopefully with less ludicrous commentary.
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"Really all it is is a return to instinctive mothering," Geldof said on ITV's "This Morning" in November 2013.
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For once, we don't have to show the female side or the light side or the nurturing, mothering side.
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Johnson did her mothering amid farmers' market bags, compostable toothbrushes, foraged berries and homemade muffins crafted with bulk-aisle goods.
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The card is also often representative of mothering and motherhood, but its meaning also extends to femininity as a whole.
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"It felt like this mothering experience: here I am, and my body's taking care of a life," she told NOW.
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The spectre of bad mothering, of Medea and her descendants, haunts this book, as do "blood, guts, misery and lust".
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Or did he become sociopathic because she was temperamentally unsuited to mothering, longing for the freedom of her previous life?
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The company has announced a plan to help pay for moms who want spend Mother's Day taking a break from mothering.
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Packed with hilarious dialogue and some of the most delightful characters ever written, this is what mothering dreams are made of.
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"What I'm doing today is still mothering his legacy," McBath said at a campaign even last month, according to the Times.
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It seems impossible to accuse these women of poor mothering after seeing them so emotional over being separated from their children.
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Jane, which just wrapped its fourth season, is filled with these kinds of perfect little moments of complicated, heartstring-pulling mothering.
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There's a huge force that's affecting your generation — it's called social media, and it's mothering you as much as I am.
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Because the reality is, this mothering stuff can be challenging beyond words, no matter how much we yearned for the role.
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After a half century of being pushed around by doctors and industry, they were ready to "take mothering back," Bentley writes.
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That extreme-mothering angle is what made Vincenzo Natali's 2010 bio-horror, "Splice" — another "behold my creation" story — such unruly fun.
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Lately, I enjoyed "Mothering Sunday," by Graham Swift; "Submission," by Michel Houellebecq; and "The Truth and Other Lies," by Sascha Arango.
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There is so much pressure on women around birth and labor and mothering to do it this way or that way.
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Alcalá's poetry narrates this conflict through the forms of the mothering and laboring body, whose knowledge is written in its muscles.
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I'm most looking forward to the joy and struggle of mothering—and all that my son has yet to teach me.
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These onerous preconditions for writing and mothering and being a wife had to be brokered all by herself, all for herself.
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But of course, so much has changed, especially if you look back hundreds of years, tracing the origins of contemporary mothering.
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An overabundance of advice has turned mothering into a hot mess of guilt, confusion and hard labor, writes Ylonda Gault Caviness.
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Labor joins the chorus of important conversations about motherhood and how mothering has been represented in art and culture through history.
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"Serious Mothering," the second episode of HBO's Big Little Lies, makes you forget the show will involve a murder at some point.
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Streaming now, here are 21 movies and series about the magical art of mothering, perfect for watching with your mom this weekend.
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They save me often from the demands of all of the many moving parts of living here, working, mothering, and so forth.
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Cardi B, who also noted criticism of her mothering skills in her Instagram post, recently had her first child with rapper Offset.
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The study was small and more research is needed, but experts seem to agree with today's findings that pregnancy improves mothering skills.
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You could end up mothering a green, black or a red dragon, which you can then name after your own fallen relatives.
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You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn't mean you aren't mothering –dogs, friends, friends' children.
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At 24, she is the youngest cast member on the series, but grew up really quickly after mothering two children with Thomas.
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Dowling relates anecdotes about boxing matches, the rampages of Norman Mailer, and the challenges of attending seminars while mothering two small children.
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"What I'm doing today is still mothering his legacy," Ms. McBath said at a meet-and-greet event in this Atlanta suburb.
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Sure, there's a lot about mothering, but the actual beating heart of the series is blank acquiescence to confounding or inappropriate circumstances.
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"Defendant &aposDevin Nunes&apos Mom&apos likewise posts satirical patronizing, nagging, mothering comments which ostensibly treat Mr. Nunes as a misbehaving child."
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"The hardest part of mothering has been the 'mommy guilt' I feel when I have to leave for work," she tells PEOPLE exclusively.
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People orbit around Sarah's life: her mothering co-worker (Molly Shannon), her roommate (Debby Ryan), her potential love interest ( Search Party's John Reynolds).
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In any case, Jenner, for her part, didn't seem to want to make her Instagram feed totally focused around her cool mothering skills.
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Even though Doyle has incorporated more "mothering energy" activism into her brand, Together Live was not an event primarily about her activist work.
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On that earlier series, Lorelai took a more traditional approach to mothering, reorganizing her entire life around that of her teenage daughter Rory.
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As in so many of Mr. Swift's stories, an unexpected event shatters Jane's Mothering Sunday, sending shock waves through all the character's lives.
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And I have been forced to back off my helicopter mothering, which is harder when you're with your kid only half the time.
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Adlon allows us to conceive of a world in which a single mom isn't torn between her Romantic Desires and her Mothering Responsibilities.
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But since Steiner seems to judge all her characters on the strength of their mothering instincts, the Latvian gangsters don't get any love.
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"Look," she said flatly, already with the deadpan nonchalance of someone who'd been mothering for a lifetime (Dorothy from Golden Girls came to mind).
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The mothering actions themselves—bathing him, washing his hair, dressing him, feeding him—seemed to generate a mood of love when I wasn't looking.
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That's not to say that I didn't grow up mothering my baby dolls or assuming, without much thought, that I would have kids someday.
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Mothering a transgender child in the 21st century means that you are part of a huge cultural shift, a new direction in human rights.
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In 2007, Crystal Munoz was mothering a four-month-old and pregnant with her second daughter when DEA agents arrived at her Texas home.
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"Darron's her only kid, so I'd always tease her about how lazy she is in the mothering department," Annie said in a telephone interview.
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Sara B. Franklin wrote a heart-rending essay for us about how caring for her parents during terminal illnesses helped prepare her for mothering.
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But, a huge chunk of those scenes also investigate mothering: how mothers differ, where their relationships fracture, and why they are the way they are.
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"I have had people walk up to me and say things to my face about my parenting and mothering," Ponder told Sports Illustrated last December.
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" It's not surprising that studies continue to find that most "men perceive fathering as something they 'do,' whereas women experience mothering as something they 'are.
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Penelope confronts Cheryl about the emancipation, and in an act of surprise mothering, Penelope tips Cheryl off to a police raid of the Whyte Wyrm.
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Mendoza's going to have to do a lot of mothering, because Daya's high AF — and her biological mother is the one sending the drugs in.
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Part of the reason for that, she suggests, is that she's raising her children in the New York area, where midlife mothering is fairly common.
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Kim also revealed that the family is happy to help each other out with their growing broods, even if their mothering styles sometimes don't sync.
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But, we actually have no idea how Dorit parents her kids 24/7, since the show isn't called The Real Housewives of Dorit's Mothering Skills.
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Her work is constantly interrupted by her genius son, but allegorically the book is really about the difficulty of looking after—mothering—one's own genius.
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They see the work of care and mothering as simply passive — part of biology, or a self-renewing "standing reserve" that the natural world is.
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British herself, she longs for her mother, far from Indiana, and notes with painful precision the pitfalls of modern mothering: isolation and lack of support.
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In the post, Tierpark Berlin applauds Tonja's mothering skills and hints that the mom and her cub will make their public debut together in mid-March.
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Slone expected to be closely involved in the NAS treatment and provide the intensive mothering that Shook prefers, but the complex medical situation didn't allow it.
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Richardson's daughters begin to rebel, each preferring the rival's brand of mothering over the one in her home, the two women brace for an inevitable collision.
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It's something I didn't do consciously, but now that I look back I see the ways in which motherhood, or mothering, refracts through the whole book.
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Some may say I'm neglecting the best parts of mothering — that I should be cooking and cleaning to show my family how much I love them.
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Now, those years of experience mothering three budding models — 17-year-old Anwar is booking jobs now too — have helped Hadid land her own reality show.
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Quindlen: The curious thing is that I had all these friends who I know were mothering by the seat of their pants, just like I was.
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Physical distance and travel sharpen my senses, and the filter of mothering lifts: I see the world the way I did before I had a child.
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The kidnapping of Baby Midas might be the central plot of this novel, but the stresses and joys of mothering a newborn run a close second.
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Troubled female protagonists are more likely to be defined by two things: their spousal and mothering skills and, closely related, their levels of guilt and fear.
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As for who's been the child's primary caregiver -- our Jennifer sources say she's always made mothering her top priority, even while working to support the family.
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And many cultures have lived with an eye to the future, and have held nature (the "all-mothering Earth" to use an ancient Greek phrase) sacred.
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In the movie, which comes out November 1, they both play mothers struggling to host their moms for the holidays on top of their own mothering duties.
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Though Joanna says she feels like "a first-time mom all over again" after her extended break from babies, she's more self-assured in her mothering experience.
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Never mind the fact that Ms. Klobuchar poked fun at her own mothering during a nationally televised debate, describing herself "meddling" in her daughter's weekend social life.
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Not long ago, American culture provided a sanctioned life course: an idle childhood, an adulthood of mothering (for women) and productive labor (for men), a leisured retirement.
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I didn't know how I was going to cope simultaneously with the physical recovery of childbirth, the mothering of a living child, and my own heavy grief.
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Distrust and betrayal stain the story, yet Mr. Blackhurst resists cynicism; even when our humanity is in tatters, he suggests, the mothering instinct remains damn near indestructible.
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There were "7,000 kids in foster care, people dying every day from opioid overdoses," as she put it, plus the normal tasks of mothering two teenage boys.
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Linda Blum is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University and the author of Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality.
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InStyle's July cover star has three children with husband Cash Warren—Honor, 10, Haven, 6, and Hayes, 9 months—which means she's got her mothering skills down pat.
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"Mothering can feel like a lonely road, when you are the only one who is going through the epic experiences happening to your body," McKeever, 34, tells PEOPLE.
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I was very interested in the way that mothering is an act, and not just like a static identity of who you are if you have a child.
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For me, we have the kids half the time, so I feel like I am mothering, which is crazy as someone who has never had [biological] children before.
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Sassy, transcendent, indifferent, defiant, needy, lonely, mothering, perspicacious, and tough, Arnold was one of the first fully-rendered gay human beings that mainstream America would acknowledge as such.
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You mention Michael Roper's 2009 study, "The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War," which details how men came to especially value femininity and mothering during the war.
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I mean, there's so much of mothering and in the US and in our culture that is about browbeating women and telling them the ways they're doing it wrong.
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The series, now in its second season, is a quiet, movingly hilarious mediation on women, mothering, and family, and I didn't begin watching it until a few weeks ago.
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Tri Zaysta means "Three Hares" in English, and we assumed it is named after the three middle-aged women who take turns running the place and mothering the guests.
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"Her appearance, mothering, likability, the audacious woman will find herself judged more intensely on these after publicly demonstrating her competitiveness and unapologetic drive," Fleshman said of Jorgensen this week.
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Alas, mothering briefly got the best of "Otherhood" when its premiere was pushed from April to August after Huffman was arrested and pleaded guilty in a college admissions scandal.
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Our show will address various experiences of mothering and motherhood, and the ways the mother and childrearing have been perceived and portrayed, both historically and in current popular culture.
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Building my confidence and new identity by investing in myself via working toward a degree in journalism, and most importantly, finding a beautiful purpose in mothering my twin daughters.
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"I felt very connected to the international mothering community throughout my own pregnancy and the birth of my son," Wilde said at Variety's third annual unite4:humanity event in February.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It was 'Mothering Monday' on Wimbledon's Center Court when Serena Williams took on fellow mum Evgeniya Rodina for a place in the quarter-finals of the grasscourt major.
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Even Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski), someone who is mothering a baby she stole from a woman whose rape she orchestrated, is horrified by such a display of Gilead's savagery.
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Though the HGTV star said she felt like "a first-time mom all over again" after her extended break from babies, she was more self-assured in her mothering experience.
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Ciara and Future's war just got way more heated -- she's suing him for allegedly blasting her mothering skills and attacking her relationship with Russell Wilson ... all to publicize his music.
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Conversely, former on-the-go internet writer Julia fears she can't provide sound mothering to her new stepdaughter, an anxiety that Tessa identifies and subtly exacerbates until Julia comes undone.
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In the invocation of Gloria Steinem's assertion that mothering is a verb, we are proud to launch Daring Discussions this Mother's Day in belief that we must mother this nation.
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It's our role, as women, to not only see the fights before us, but to use our mothering foresight to protect those not here yet that cannot fend for themselves.
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The lack of language around this role, and the many different ways we "mother," is symptomatic of the lack of discussion around what mothering looks like in the 21st century.
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She combs through letters, diaries, anthropology field notes, doctor's notes and memoirs to create a "trellis of tiny scenes" that illuminate what mothering truly entailed throughout the last four centuries.
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"Duties of mothering - amongst which feeding is an important one - can also be undertaken by other members of the community when children are fed with feeding vessels," Rebay-Salisbury said.
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It made me realize how important women's stories are, and my hope grew that more women feel safe to share their experiences, particularly regarding childbirth, reproductive choice, mothering, and motherhood.
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Bridgette arrives on screen fully formed, with complex outlooks on sex, mothering, and the proper amount of maple syrup to shoot into one's mouth in the wee hours of the morning.
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" How the grandchildren are being raised is a major trigger for this dynamic, Dr. Tannen said: "Many women told me that they could take criticism about anything except their mothering skills.
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"I realize now with my mothering that love and truth must go hand in hand, and that my love coming at the expense of truth is not real love," she said.
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However, her most interesting commentary is on whether or not she was supposed to be a mother, lamenting the fact mothering her two children is supposed to feel natural, but doesn't exactly.
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"We noticed that Bellatrix wasn't showing typical mothering behaviors, so we decided to step in to give Tonks some supportive care," Denver Zoo's lead primate keeper, Becky Sturges, said in a statement.
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She says she overworked herself into a divorce and bankruptcy about seven years ago and has been trying not to make the same career, marriage and mothering mistakes in her second marriage.
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While women with children have been belittled as not having enough capacity to lead while mothering, women without children also receive blistering criticism for not living up to society's expectations of women.
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The reason that we keep coming back to mothers and women is because the medical model and the social model still define child care as mothering by women, and that is problematic.
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Then there's the exhaustion and ego blow of mothering young children in a culture that pays lip service to the importance of parenting, while failing to support us as we do it.
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Experts said more research was required, involving more women and clearer assessments of social cognition to substantiate whether gray matter loss is truly linked to "theory of mind" and improved mothering skills.
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To the Editor: Our cultural myths about motherhood — that all women are nurturing, that mothering is instinctual, that all mothers are loving — are the bedrock on which the myths about estrangement rest.
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In the film, her family and friends recount that journey, including her headline-fueling marriage to Bobby Brown and long-rumored bisexuality to her struggles with mothering Bobbi Kristina and crippling cocaine addiction.
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Called Mothering Sunday, it was traditionally a day in the middle of Lent during which those no longer home would return to their "mother" church — the main place of worship in their hometown.
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Adoption manager Lauren Gaddis adopted the pup last March and knew very little about her mothering skills, until the dog was called on recently to comfort three very young kittens in desperate need.
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Yet hers is a sensible, not silly, Nurse, which Ms. Chappell makes clear not only in her compassionate mothering of Juliet, but also in a moment of mourning for her own lost child.
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By that logic, a woman's decision about whether or not to take a break from work to have children is a function of how much she earns and how highly she values mothering.
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" He later got several emails from people who said they made more than their partner, who "resented" their lower-earning partner, felt that they were "mothering them," or felt that they "weren't ambitious.
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I didn't congratulate her like so many others, but I did offer words of admiration for managing this hugely demanding, high-profile political career while simultaneously juggling the challenges of mothering four children.
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By the time Ethan turned 3, the physical demands of mothering had lessened and I could focus on the parts that came easily — talking with him, reading together, entering into his imaginary worlds.
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Rescue, resuscitate, heal — the work in Saar's exhibition, Uneasy Dancer, does all of the above and thus makes me want to slip into the comfortable and easy analogy of Saar as a mothering figure.
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In this tale of devotion, a guy called Eric McKinley finds himself at a singles church retreat with his ex-girlfriend Anastacia Stapleton, who is single-mothering a kid he doesn't know he has.
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Alongside her acting and mothering, the actress has started a baking service that delivers fresh, easy-to-pronounce ingredients, along with a simple recipe, straight to families' homes so they can all bake together.
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This is common for middle-class black mothers, found Dawn Dow, a sociologist at the University of Maryland whose book, "Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood," comes out in February.
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Meanwhile, the acting career of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, took off, and then so did the second act — as rehabbed addict and memoirist who chronicled her bitterness over Ms. Reynolds's mothering and career obsession.
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And if the choice between safety and danger, virtue and vice is at times made overwhelmingly literal, it's also in keeping with the movie's atavistic tone and unblinking focus on the act of mothering.
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Indeed, many of these works espouse a wisdom rooted in touch, experience, and intimacy, challenging limitations on the depiction of the experience of motherhood and refusing to separate the absurdity of mothering from the joy.
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But for all the reasons her own ASD confirmation provided access to a broader circle, she still found it largely impossible to connect with other parents when it came to mothering a son with autism, too.
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Rosemary's Baby leaves us with a disturbing image: a distraught Rosemary, having confronted the coven about stealing her devil baby ("what have you done to it?!" she cries), is asked to rock him — to be mothering.
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Intuitive water sign Cancer is associated with mothering and birth, fertility, and creativity, while Capricorn is like the daddy of the zodiac, also very creative, but more concerned with building material resources than inner emotional resources.
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"[T]he film is meant to be uncomfortable," she explained in response, adding that she "absolutely did not" consult medical experts when writing, basing the script's premise instead on her own research and experience of mothering.
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Meanwhile at home, her daughter has declared herself a dimwit interested only in marriage; her second son has become a trigger-happy firearms specialist; and her oldest son, an aspiring writer, has denounced Louisa's mothering skills.
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I found mothering a constant struggle — learning how to diaper my daughter without splattering her poo everywhere, figuring out how to collapse the stroller and get it into the car, swaddling her without her unwrapping it.
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Understandably, for those mothers who became mothers not by choice, and for those who lack a support system to help them, the notion of mothering as a self-directed privilege would be far from their reality.
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And so, because I know Uzo personally and I knew that kind of force and mothering quality that she has, I just felt like she could be that part — she could be the conscience of the movie.
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The characters aren't bad at mothering, instead, they're accomplished at having a life beyond motherhood, inhabiting a land of strollers in the daylight, opening their homes for house parties at night, and making out with hot widowers.
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It was so traumatic and heartbreaking to have a judge basically call me a slut and call into question my mothering skills because of stuff I did for two years over a decade ago merely for survival.
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Instagram therapists are the new Instagram poets, in a way — only instead of posting free verse in typewriter font, they deal in pithy pronouncements about embracing imperfection, self-care, "growth mindset," mothering oneself, impostor syndrome and trauma.
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Afterward, the team — the set designer Mimi Lien, the costume designer Linda Cho, the lighting designer Jen Schriever, the sound designer Palmer Hefferan and the projection designer Lucy Mackinnon — stayed to chat about balancing mothering and designing.
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In her fourth collection, "Magdalene," there are many poems about mothering an adopted daughter, including this one, in which the mother figure herself becomes a kind of witness to the ordinary, extraordinary miracle of a child's consciousness.
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As Karen walked back toward the corner where she had abandoned the stroller, she realized that, for all Linda's talk about mothering and its pressures, she had never said explicitly that she had children of her own.
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Between mothering adorable son, Titan, and preparing for her coaching turn on The Voice Australia, Rowland teamed up with Burlington Stores and WomenHeart to educate women and offer free preventive screenings at a New York store on Tuesday.
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There's a reason why Dee Dee loves this particular song so much: Dee Dee will always "be there" for Gypsy Rose...and that means bringing Gypsy harm so she can reap in praise for mothering a sick child.
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And over in Stars Hollow, Lorelai's devoting all her mothering energies to Paul Anka and the construction crew remodeling her house — she even babies T.J., even though she, like all right-thinking people, must find him incredibly annoying.
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Among the books he wrote with Ms. Klaus were "The Amazing Newborn: Discovering and Enjoying Your Baby's Natural Abilities" (1985) and "Mothering the Mother: How a Doula Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth" (1993).
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"How many preschoolers do you know [who] know all the words to Taylor Swift's Red album?" he asks as a form of praise for "role model" Mindy's mothering, rather than an exasperated lament about his ex's pop cultural obsessions.
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As a stepmother who suddenly found herself in the business of some very real mothering to a 7-year-old boy, I came up with the search as a way to pass the time on the drive to school.
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The abject sadness that backgrounds this novel pushes the current debate about the tension between writing and mothering — ushered in by a series of new books on motherhood — past logistical and political concerns into the realm of existential crisis.
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The other thing Helen is clearly struggling with is having a life without work or any obligations other than mothering in L.A. It has fucked her up so much that she doesn't even like the perfect weather in Southern California.
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There's a clear Mean Girls reference hidden in one of the last scenes—when the PTA-attendees start to confess their "bad" mothering, one woman stands up and admits she's not even a mom, she's simply there because she's lonely.
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Mothering a transgender child who was born in 2000, several years before there was any public understanding of the natural process of what makes a baby transgender, was one of those mountains most mothers hope they don't have to climb.
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Black-and-white photos and videos prevail, including documentation of actions: Lea Lublin mothering her child in a museum in France, Narcisa Hirsch inviting people to feast off a female skeleton, Victoria Santa Cruz reclaiming a racist taunt through a poem.
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"The Blue Flower," by Penelope Fitzgerald; "Mothering Sunday," by Graham Swift; "Autumn," by Ali Smith; "Seven Types of Atheism," by John Gray; "Al-Mawloudah," by the Egyptian writer Nadia Kamel; "Red Birds," by Mohammed Hanif; "Raising Sparks," by Ariel Kahn.
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" READ: 'Speak' author: 'We as adults struggle to talk honestly to kids about sex" So, in between prosecuting sex crimes and mothering her three children, Starishevsky wrote a straightforward book targeting 3- to 8-year-olds with rhymes and simple illustrations.
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Nicki Minaj launches merchandise line based on Cardi B fight The Bronx-rapper later said during an interview that everything came to a head after she saw that Minaj had liked, and then unliked, a tweet critical of Cardi's mothering skills.
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What Jo ends up producing, for the demanding Dashwood, is a summation of all that we have observed; she writes the film into being, so to speak, mothering the facts and the multiple fates of her loved ones into fiction.
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It's when those roles exhaust her that her "bad" mothering breaks through: her reaction to Lady Bird's prom dress ("I just want you to be your best self"), her inability to forgive Lady Bird for applying to New York colleges behind her back.
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"Joann's motto she always lived by - such a joyful, young, vibrant woman... Joann's whole world - her babies... beautiful, sweet Joann... Joann & her hubby Chris... Joann and little Brookie, glowing as usual, doing what she did best, mothering," Smith continued in her tribute.
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Meghan King Edmonds finally felt the wrath of Kelly Dodd on Monday's all-new Real Housewives of Orange County, when the two came to blows in an argument that left the new mom fleeing in tears after Dodd criticized her mothering skills.
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It's been mostly juggling work and the mothering thing — and in our case, packing it up and living in hotels like Eloise at the Plaza, always trying to stay grounded and normal in that environment, or at least as much as we can.
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"Separation may impair her attachment to her baby, increase the guilt she feels about the impact her addiction has on her baby and diminish her perception of her own mothering capacity — all of which can increase her risk of relapse," she said.
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In charming footage released by Charles, 67, on his social media pages to honor "Mothering Sunday" in the U.K. on March 6, Queen Elizabeth is captured in her princess days as a young mother before she had the demands of state on her shoulders.
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Together they tried to predict how Linda's mothering skills had been passed down ("I'm going to be that weird parent at the sleepover, trying to make sure everybody's nice to her," Laura announced), while also campaigning not so subtly for the performer's next Broadway role.
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But I try to assuage that pain by doing my mothering where I can — grabbing time with my nephews; dispensing advice to my grown step-kids when asked (and sometimes when I'm not); having heart-to-hearts with my friends' kids when they come to stay.
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We are worlds away from the Edwardian coziness of "Peter Pan," but there's a definite tinge of the Lost Boys in these gleeful desperadoes, and Estrella, in teaming up with them, becomes a kind of instant Wendy; within days, she goes from losing a mother to mothering.
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As if gestating a human life, birthing it, mothering it alone—being alone, really—were not enough, there was also the task of acquiring, organizing, and maintaining every material item of consequence for yourself, your partner, and caring diligently for the tiny mammal your body just created.
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The study, which found that identical twins were more likely than fraternal twins to share a diagnosis of schizophrenia, provided strong evidence for a genetic component to the illness and challenged the notion that it was caused by bad mothering, the prevailing view at the time.
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The romanticized images she describes do mask messy facts, but she does not acknowledge that the gauzy narrative enables the isolation of mothers by assuring them that they alone can and must perform all the tasks of mothering, at best with the help of a partner.
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A divorced mother estranged from her four adult children — because of her bad mothering, she explained — she was living alone, retired from a job she disliked, racked with sorrow over the way her children's lives had turned out, and saw no reason to get up in the morning.
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While Donahue draws inspiration from artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel, and Marlene Dumas, who have all made work related to ideas of mothering, Donahue's work should also be seen in the context of Madonna and child imagery — especially more true-to-life, playful depictions of the Christ child.
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Not only is there a new over-the-top villain -- a former child TV star, Balthazar Bratt, voiced by "South Park's" Trey Parker -- but Gru tries to connect with his long-lost brother Dru (also Carell), while Gru's wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig) seeks to prove her mothering credentials to her stepdaughters.
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Yes, even Moore's parents were obsessed with the tear-jerking juggernaut of the year, but while most of us were still sobbing into our couch cushions, the star's mother had a few suggestions for how Rebecca could sort out her life … Mother knows best — even when she's mothering a TV character. 7.
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"We would go out to dinner and share our best mothering advice, tips on everything, so we had this idea to start a podcast where we would create a village, create a group of mothers that we really loved and respected, and talk about deeper issues," Oz explains of the podcast's inception.
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As a result of my unique journey, I've learned a lot, including one big lesson: Mothering and sex work are two of the hardest jobs that a woman can do — and the ways both mothers and sex workers are compelled to stay silent about our realities makes these difficult jobs that much harder.
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After going after Minaj (Cardi says because she was talking smack about Cardi's mothering skills) during a high profile New York Fashion Week party, the "Be Careful" rapper strolled out of the event, escorted by authorities, seemingly nonplussed by the goose egg on her forehead she received as she charged at Minaj.
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It couldn't have been that bad, you might think, reeling up the aisle after "Long Day's Journey Into Night" or "The Iceman Cometh" or one of the other semiautobiographical plays in which Eugene O'Neill depicts betrayal, guilt, murder, incest, infanticide, suicide, alcohol abuse, drug abuse and whatever the opposite of Tiger-Mothering is.
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Also, being a parent myself for almost 15 years, raising a boy and a girl, with all the complexities, challenges, and understandings of human nature that comes with mothering, it all becomes a part of my identity, of who I am, a part that I can bring into the photo shoot and hopefully into the images themselves.
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The plays, which are now in revival under the joint title " The Red Letter Plays " (at the Signature), present different landscapes and story lines, but they have a number of technical similarities—including the use of monologues, projected titles, and songs—and both examine a woman's dream of motherhood and the challenges of mothering without societal support or faith.
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Marketing materials for hands-free, next-generation breast pumps like Evie and Willow, for instance, tend to feature badass supermoms expertly juggling conference calls with cooking dinner; the implication is that hands-free breast pumps give working mothers more free time to fill up with their career and mothering duties, when frankly, they're already pretty tapped out as is.
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Novels like William Trevor's "Reading Turgenev," Kent Haruf's "Our Souls at Night," Julie Otsuka's "The Buddha in the Attic," Ron Hansen's "Mariette in Ecstasy," Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary," Flaubert's "A Simple Heart," Gwendolyn Brooks's "Maud Martha," David Malouf's "Ransom," Graham Swift's "Mothering Sunday," Bill Schubart's "Lila & Theron" — oh Lord, there are so many good ones.
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I do it because I want women to see you do not get pushed around," she told CNN's Dana Bash — and some, including Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, have attributed Ms. Pelosi's ability to whip a caucus to the mothering skills that come from having five children and eight grandchildren: "She has eyes in the back of her head.
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She winds up mothering Cole in her own strange way, though at times it comes across like a half seduction: inviting him to her weekly salon for well-heeled bohemians like herself, offering him a place to stay, discussing her affair with his father with great candor (if not total honesty), and essentially procuring her stunning "protégé" Delphine for his pleasure.
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Some seem to think: "With obesity, we don't understand it, so it must be due to incompetent mothering," The complexities of teasing out variations in infant appetite are just one piece of trying to understand the complicated biology and social politics of obesity, and how changes in food availability and the larger environment around us may affect people so differently.
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Good luck working in an industry with weird or demanding hours, or one that demands you give yourself the space to be a creative genius, if you're a woman — because you've also been conditioned to be the team captain in your relationship, that you need to be paying attention to your biological clock, and that the majority of the mothering and cleaning and organizing duties in life are yours.
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The care staff will allow Calaya to nurse, bond with and care for her infant son, feeling fairly confident in her mothering skills considering that trainers have done their due diligence preparing the new mom in advance by showing her photos of mother gorillas, giving her a plush baby gorilla toy, and showing her how to nurse, among other necessary medical and parental behaviors, said the zoo in its statement.
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Laurie and Carla have thick skins and rarely show emotion, and they can screw with the boys without flinching; Jan conforms to her group of all male coworkers, taking pride in being "one of the boys"; and Monica serves as the slightly more emotional, female support system for the men, who put on a front of confidence, but long for reassurance — and maybe even a little mothering from her character.
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Oh you real effulgent frailties Look a book, a banister, a sinister affirmation of how little we achieve in looking a bog, an orchard, an icy shore shorn of longing a flower, a power- line flecked with lingering over their split tails, then the mass of them amassing living darkening cloud When they settle I am slumped in my plushest lonely meadow, nook look, look the augur of them in the unfamiliar immediacy of any old mothering oak
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Because Jane's farewell date with Paul occurs on "Mothering Sunday" (the fourth Sunday of Lent, when domestic servants were traditionally given the day off to visit their families) and his parents, too, are gone for the day, he invites Jane over to his house and to his bedroom — something, in the seven years she's been secretly seeing him, that she scarcely dreamed might happen, so rigid is the class hierarchy that Mr. Swift depicts in 1920s England.
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She was rather sickly after Donald's last sibling was born, Robert, and I think Donald missed out on quite a bit of mothering and I think he missed out on quite a bit of attention from his dad, so when people see this very driven man who's endless in his appetite for attention, I think what they're seeing also is a kid who might not have got enough attention and has been trying to make up for it ever since.
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There are memoirs of sudden pregnancy ("And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready," by Meaghan O'Connell) and struggling to conceive ("An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood," by Emma Brockes); accounts of postpartum depression ("Things That Helped," by Jessica Friedmann) and postpartum euphoria ("The Motherhood Affidavits," by Laura Jean Baker); novels about whether to have children ("Motherhood," by Sheila Heti), novels about mothering someone else's children ("That Kind of Mother," by Rumaan Alam), even novels about killing children ("The Perfect Nanny," by Leila Slimani, and "The Perfect Mother," by Aimee Molloy — part of a genre grouped under the ghastly moniker "mom thrillers").
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