Quotes by : Jennifer Senior

Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat....

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing....

The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have....

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather....

As parents, we sometimes mistakenly assume that things were always this way. They weren't. The modern....

The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful.....

You don't have a good story until something deviates from the expected," says McAdams. "And raising children....

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want.