This pressure to be perfect is acute for millennial moms who arrived at parenthood in the age of social media. They are over it.
, are sharing glimpses of their own vulnerability and imperfections; some are talking about bigger concerns that affect their children and the world they’ll inhabit — like public health inequity, systemic racism, gun violence and climate change. More millennial moms are rejecting the impossible expectation that their parenting must somehow be perfect when their lives, and their world, are most certainly not.
I did see that he did not know many of the rules. … However, he was eager to please and did a great job once he learned them!It felt affirming, Harrison says, a reminder of what really mattered. “He might not have gotten all the socialization that the media and other parents will tell you is so valuable,” she says, “but he has gotten a whole different perspective on the human experience.
“Millennial moms have so much advice about how to parent available to us, it is coming in from everywhere. We have data on why screen time is bad for our kids,” she says. “Knowing that screen time is really bad for your kids, it is a painful knowledge to carry when it’s really the only option that you have to keep them safe and do your job if you’re a mom who works outside the home.
George now has a 5-year-old son and a four-year-old tech company. “I wanted to have more than one kid,” she says, “But,? Like, how do I do that, and balance the tech company, too? I know you have to get up and do it, but just, that’s what’s breaking us and getting us to the point of, ‘I can’t, I just have to choose.’”
“I really do think that even having a few friends who say, ‘I’m opting out of this, are you going to do that, too?’ — it feels like someone has given you permission when you’re doing it in community,” she says. “Even if it’s just you and another friend saying, ‘I’m not doing Christmas cards this year.’ That’s it! And it’s kind of shocking when you opt out of some of the more unnecessary pressures, you do it, and it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s actually really easy. You can just say no.
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