Though I’ve been digging deep into dessert all week, I emerged long enough to write a post for Silicon Valley Moms Blog:
Can we please declare a moratorium on the mommy war? The one where mommies are fighting about whether it’s better to stay at home or work? The war that is almost halfway to the Hundred Years War? Can someone please muzzle Dr. Phil and all the people who fan the flames?
Enough already. Most mommies don’t have a choice about fighting this war—they’re drafted. Even for those who have choices, it surprises me that today’s mommies are so sure about where they stand. Because I could never choose a side.
In fact that’s my point: that the most intense mommy war takes place not BETWEEN mommies but INSIDE mommies.
The first skirmish on my battlefield came in with the breast milk…..
Also posted on 50-Something Moms blog
