Must-read: "The Little Secret of Women Who Have it All"
I'm not going to have much time to blog this morning but I wanted to recommend Laura Vanderkam's August 13 blog on The Huffington Post.
"The Little Secret of Women Who Have it All" provides a breath of fresh air by discussing the possibility that motherhood and work are compatible, and that it's really okay to feel fine doing both!
"The Little Secret of Women Who Have it All" provides a breath of fresh air by discussing the possibility that motherhood and work are compatible, and that it's really okay to feel fine doing both!
Labels: Huffington Post, Laura Vanderkam, life work imabalance
posted by MojoMom at 6:43 AM
4 Comments:
I can't thank you enough for posting this. I want to print it out and send it to all the people who think my husband and I are nuts for starting a family at 22. I think, "But they'll all be grown when we're in our 40s!" That's a lot of post-child living for us to enjoy and explore!
Seriously, it's so reassuring to read articles like that, reminding us that there's more than one way to navigate life.
Hi Lisa, I am glad that blog post was helpful to you. I worry a little about turning off people to motherhood older in life by saying this, but at age almost-39, I have a hard time imagining going back to the newborn days. I am sure this is true at least in part because my family is well down the road with an elementary-school age kid. Maybe if I were becoming a first-time Mom right now, I would feel up for it.
But physically, mentally and emotionally, I would not be ready to go back to sleepless nights and 24/7 mothering. I enjoyed it at the time but now that I've escaped the orbit of parenting a baby, I am ready keep moving forward to new adventures.
I will share that we did try to have a second baby, and I guess you could say we experienced secondary infertility, although it didn't really feel that way since our family was satisfyingly complete with one child.
But back to Laura Vanderkam's piece, I liked it because while there is no simple or easy time to have a child, but it's nice to be reminded that there can be advantages at just about any age.
Very interesting! I am 36 and have 6 children, ranging in age from 17 to almost 2 year old twins. And this year I am starting a career - I profile the reasons why on my blog www.homeschoolblogger.com/cathmom.
That was a great piece! Thanks for the link. I do often wonder how my life would have been different had I become a mother at a younger age. Not that it was really on the radar since I didn't marry Mr. PunditMom until I was 35! But it's so great to read a competely fresh take on this subject, and one that's reasonable.
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