Mothers and Shakers

15/10/2023

I’m SO excited for this online chat about raising boys and redefining masculinity for a better world with two incredible authors, happening this Wednesday at 6pm UK time/10pm US time (PDT).

Eve Rodsky is an NYT bestselling author and domestic equity campaigner whose book Fair Play was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and helped launch a global mission to improve fairness in our homes.

Sonora Jha is a journalism professor and acclaimed author of several books including the memoir How To Raise A Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity and the Making of My Family.

Register on Eventbrite for this FREE online event (or to get the replay if you can’t make the live recording). Live attendees can join in with audience Q&A, signed book giveaways and more!

When: Wed Oct 18, 6pm UK time (BST) or 10am US time (PDT).

Please join us and do share with your networks!

Register here: https://bit.ly/boyspanel-oct18

25/09/2022

He told his new dad, “You know, the class is kind of my family.” 🥰🥲

When Michael Clark Jr. was helping his foster parents plan his adoption day, he wanted to invite his whole kindergarten class for the best reason.

04/08/2021

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What we need are not necessarily rescuers, healers, or gurus, but people who will help us remember our light. ☀️ 🔥 🌟
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Via • The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death

06/06/2021

Word of the week!

"Why do women feel the need to EXPLAIN?

We explain why we work full-time. Or part-time. Or work from home. Or why we left work to stay home with the kids.

We explain why we decided to leave him. Or stay with him.

Or have another baby.

We explain alllllll our parenting choices (especially our decision to bottle or breastfeed…I’ve done both).

We apologize for the condition of our homes. Or our clothes.

We explain the reasons why we cut our hair. Or why we haven’t returned to our pre-baby weight.

We give excuses for why we can’t make it to the party. Or can’t volunteer. Or can’t make the trip.

Or why we need help from a nanny a few hours a week.

We say things like, 'Oh, excuse the mess!' or 'Don’t mind my hair!' or 'I’m so sorry I can’t be there!' followed by a string of explanations.

I guess we want to please our mothers and husbands and bosses and children and neighbors and coworkers and friends and siblings and children’s teachers and those ladies from church and people who drop by unannounced and those random strangers at the store.

Right???

But, you want to hear something funny?

I’ve been married almost twenty years now, and I’ve NEVER heard my husband explain his choices.

To anyone.

Not his choice to work 60 hours a week. Or his choice to coach basketball nearly every evening. Not his choice to go trail running or shave his head and grow a beard or drive a Suburban or buy a new mountain bike (that cost a small fortune).

I’ve never once heard him open the door to our house and explain why there are shoes on the floor or why the entryway is half-painted or why he’s wearing what he’s just…WEARING.

He is who he is and his ‘NO’ means no and when he can’t make it to the party he just says so.

It’s absurd.

And really…

I’ve decided I am finished explaining every single choice I am absolutely FREE to make.

I’m through with unnecessary excuses and apologies and rationalizations for the choices I believe are best for ME. And my family.

I’m done.

This is ME.

This is who I am. How I look. What I like. How I believe. And the way I choose to spend my time.

That’s it.

No explanation necessary."

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Credit: Ordinary on Purpose, by Mikala Albertson

14/04/2021

Girls will be girls 🤗

13/04/2021

This.

14/03/2021

Happy Mother’s Day 🌺

Sending love to the Mothers on Earth and in Heaven, the Mothers with babies and children in Heaven, the soon to be Mothers and the children who miss their Mothers.




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13/03/2021

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11/03/2021

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You are enough. You deserve a workplace that values you.

⚡️Our differences should not be barriers to overcome, they are what make us remarkable.

⚡️ We deserve the freedom to be ourselves at work and to be appreciated for this. This is equality. It’s also freedom.

⚡️Gender inequality at work is a problem for all of us. It costs men and women the freedom to be themselves. This means that your fight is my fight.

💡 Equality is not about women, and it is not about men; it is about making workplaces work for everyone.

⚡️ In light of International Women’s Day, we are choosing to challenge everyone to take up 100 Actions for Equality in 2021. With challenge comes change.

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