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more about #ayeletwaldman Seeräuber Jenny: THANK HEAVENS women are hardwired to multitask: How else could all those unpleasant chores be juggled? more » Seeräuber Jenny: "...hardwired to avoid unpleasant chores." What a flimsy excuse for being a lazy ass. In the past, it was said that women were hardwired to better tol... more » kaiwhakamarie: I don't like the idea of this guy speaking for all men on the subject of fatherhood. He is far, far removed from what my own Dad was like. My Dad rais... more » marshmallory: If my boyfriend is even half as good a dad to our future kids as he is to our dog, he'll STILL be a 99.9% better dad than this schmuck. more » clevernamehere: Michael Lewis is so convinced that his way of being a father is every man's way of being a father that it hasn't even occurred to him that his "nature... more » tscheese: My mom was a SAHM when my brother and I were growing up, so she naturally did most of the housekeeping and child-chasing and groceries and all that. (... more » la.donna.pietra: Dear Dad.Pietra and Mr.Pietra, Thank you. You kick ass, both of you, with your cheerful vacuuming, dishwashing, mopping and so forth. I also happen t... more » schweppes: Aren't women, though, because of oxytocin releases in childbirth/nursing/etc, actually biologically a little more likely, on average, with many except... more » holly217: yeah, this guy pissed me off. i kept wondering how an insensitive slacker could end up with a woman as seemingly awesome as tabitha soren. ugh. more » BlondeGrlz: Loving your baby isn't that hard and I don't want to hear the "oh it's just a blob" excuse. They're only blobs for a couple months. If your baby can s... more » hollygirl: His wife is tabitha Soren, and she has a book coming out about how she experienced panic disorder after becoming a mother- related to her husband's at... more » LindyLou: I heard the NPR interview and in my groggy state I found him pretty obnoxious. It's interesting that his wife is Tabitha Soren, who in the 90s I admir... more » whatsername: Know what? sometimes its not just that you took time to feel real attachment and experience manifest feelings that your wife approves of. Sometimes...... more » taranwanderer: He also says that in fatherhood, for "most men [...] the problem is a lack of natural emotional attachment." Ok, so I refer to my father as "emotional... more » greengrey: You know what this could be solved by? If you don't want to raise a child, take care of a child, deal with a baby, have your sleep interrupted, etc. ... more » SarahMC: Y'know, as much as moms may try to teach their kids to do household chores, regardless of gender, if the kids witness their dad avoiding his fair shar... more » PilgrimSoul: My dad adored me from birth. And he ain't exactly no bra-burner. He just never thought of a kid as something my mom should handle. I can't even ima... more » dreamweave: last night I was telling a friend/mother about how I was leaving town for a few days, leaving my husband and our babe at home. "Oh, so I guess he'll b... more » SarahMC: "It's so unfair that women expect us to contribute to the UNPAID labor necessary to keep a household running. Boo hoo hoo! They're so lucky they don't... more » PreposterousHypothesis: Apparently my dad has a secret identity! My dad said he honestly wasn't that crazy about us until around 18 months. Now I'm not saying he had to be cr... more » -
#fatherknowsless
Michael Lewis Says Dads Suck At Chores, Emotional Attachment
Michael Lewis has just released Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, in which he admits to not loving his children immediately, but this bad father to Ayelet Waldman's Bad Mother isn't getting nearly the flak she did.
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#ayeletwaldman
Bad Mother, Good Writer
"A good mother [...] doesn't need her kids to like her all the time. Of writers and their readers, Waldman's book leaves me thinking, the same might be true." — Susan Dominus [NYT] -
#bookreviews
Bad Mother Promises "Maternal Crimes," Delivers Misdemeanors
Ayelet Waldman, who famously wrote about loving her husband more than her kids, just published Bad Mother, a parenting memoir she describes as a "f&%k you to the insane Urban-Baby types."
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#notablequotables
Mommy Wars
Ayelet Waldman: "We've evolved the June Cleaver image into something even more toxic...The burden has increased exponentially, and you're not even allowed to drown your sorrows in a gin and tonic." [USA Today] -
#brevityisthesoulofsht
Six Words. Lame Fad. Enough Already.
Is anybody else sick of the six-word phenomenon? Apparently the editors of Smith Magazine aren't, because they're now releasing an anthology of six-word love stories. More »
