martha’s Reviews > The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom > Status Update
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is 40% done
So many shitty men doing terrible confirmation bias “science” and telling generations of women stressful nonsense about how to mother. (Oh, you didn’t naturally stop caring about everything except your baby? You’re a failure!)
I feel oddly soothed by the interspersed bits about the author’s sleepless newborn, whose endless screaming felt like “an emergency inside my entire body”. Yes!!
— Jun 28, 2025 08:28PM
I feel oddly soothed by the interspersed bits about the author’s sleepless newborn, whose endless screaming felt like “an emergency inside my entire body”. Yes!!
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martha
is 51% done
Lololol, basically the entire field of attachment theory is based on an n=23 study. Which was also — I believe the scientific term is “a methodological shitshow”? Or as the author says, had “the rigor of a middle school science project.”
NBD, it just underpins modern parenting guidance & societal expectations. And gets used to vilify non-white parents before taking their kids away. SIIIIGH.
— Jun 30, 2025 01:43PM
NBD, it just underpins modern parenting guidance & societal expectations. And gets used to vilify non-white parents before taking their kids away. SIIIIGH.
