Okay, We Might Have Overthought That One
b'All mothers overthink sometimes. But isn\\u2019t that our job description? To look at our baby and whatever she\\u2019s holding and think:\\xa0how is she going to injure, burn, ruin or cause disaster to herself by interacting with that object?\\n\\nThere\\u2019s an industrial complex set up around motherhood that makes its money when we feel off-balance and insecure. If we \\u201cwant what\\u2019s best\\u201d for our baby, then shouldn\\u2019t we make sure that everything around him is superlative?\\xa0\\n\\nThen the rest of society mocks us relentlessly for the very helicoptering and overthinking that all those stories about murder hornets caused us to undergo in the first place.\\xa0\\n\\nBut okay, yes: from redshirting to breastfeeding to left-handed scissors, here are are a few of the parenting topics that, looking back, we and our listeners just MIGHT have overthought.\\xa0\\n\\nAmy\\u2019s book When Did I Get Like This? is on this exact topic. Have you read it yet? Grab it here:\\xa0\\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780061963964\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'