Moms Are Not Okay
How we doing, moms? If you're anything like us, your domestic situation has blown past \u201cgetting old\u201d to \u201cseriously guys, we cannot do this anymore\u201d to fetal-position numbness and beyond. And there\u2019s nothing for dinner, and the 5th grader is failing math, and our boss just asked if that wasn\u2019t \u201csomeone\u2019s kid\u201d he just heard on the background of our work Zoom call. (Why yes. Yes, it was.)\nThe New York Times recently released a series called \u201cThe Primal Scream\u201d examining the pandemic\u2019s effect on working moms in America. As we come up on the one-year anniversary of this crisis we thought would take a couple of weeks, let's face it: all moms are kind of falling apart. As Dekeda Brown, a mother of two profiled in the Times\u2019 stories, explains:\xa0\n\u201cWe are holding together with the same tape that we have been using since March.\u201d\xa0\nIn this episode, we discuss how it\u2019s going for us (not great) and offer a few solutions for making this Groundhog-Day time a tad more survivable.\xa0\nHere are some of the articles we mention in this episode: \nJessica Bennett for NYT: Three American Mothers, On The Brink\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/parenting/covid-pandemic-mothers-primal-scream.html\nJessica Grose for NYT: America\u2019s Mothers Are In Crisis\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/parenting/working-moms-mental-health-coronavirus.html\nLaurel Elder: Parenthood and Politics in the Era of Covid-19\nhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3762600\nPooja Lakshmin for NYT: How Society Has Turned Its Back On Mothers\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/parenting/working-mom-burnout-coronavirus.html\n\n\n\n* Leave us a rating or review in your favorite podcast app!\n* Join us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatfreshhellcast\n* Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatfreshhellcast\n* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatFreshHellPodcast\n* Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/whatfreshhellcast\n* Twitter: https://twitter.com/WFHpodcast\n* questions and feedback: info@whatfreshhellpodcast.com\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices