- Jessica Grose and Yael Schonbrun discuss parenting in America, the problems and how to fix them.
- Jessica Grose’s book, Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood, looks at the unreasonable expectations put on American mothers and how many of them are contradictory.
- Yael Schonbrun’s book, Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like Too Much), focuses on working parenthood and how to build the positive in order to make social progress.
- The problem American parents are facing is that there is too much expected of them and not enough time, money, or social support to do it.
- Yael’s Buddhist allegory of the first and second arrow explains how we can be mindful of the things we can’t control and less judgmental of ourselves.
- Jessica Grose and Yael Schonbrun discussed structural issues and ways to optimize within current structures to make parenting and work easier.
- Changes like paid leave are likely to happen in the next 20 years.
- Technology can make work more flexible, but it will take time to adjust.
- Subtracting from an overly full schedule can reduce stress.
- Guilt is a normal emotion, but it is important to assess whether it is based on a real harm.
Click HERE for original. Published December 8, 2022