As a teenager, I'd longed to get my driver's license so I could get away from my parents. Then I'd longed to… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
'Did our parents really let us do that?' is a game my friends and I sometimes play. We remember taking off on… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I always knew my mother loved me, but I also knew just as surely that there were moments, hours, days, when she… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends aren't parents. I find this culture of all-consuming motherhood so oppressive. Not that I don't like to… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
What an awful burden we mothers and fathers, Jewish and not, have to bear - to hatch a thing we love more… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I always knew my mother was different, different from the other mothers in the way she dressed, the way she spoke, but… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other,… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I've written out itineraries for baby sitters with years of experience. I've gotten up in the middle of the night and stood… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
Having children, entering the realm of parents and parenthood, changes our relationship to the world in ways we could not have anticipated… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I think that the expectation on parents has changed from giving your children shelter and love and support and guidance to this… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
Virginia, like most states, has few guidelines about how closely parents are expected to supervise their children. As a result, I was… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
A father who is distracted for a few minutes by his myriad interests and obligations in the world of adult interactions is… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I allow myself to feel fear without always capitulating to it... You don't have to live your life by fear. — Kim Brooks Copy Share
When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was important, and… — Kim Brooks Copy Share
“That’s why I hadn’t talked to you for a while. But man, did I miss hearing your sweet voice.” Sandy was surprised. Mark was… — Kim Brooks Copy Share
The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from… — Kim Brooks Copy Share
When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my senior year… — Kim Brooks Copy Share
It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're having excessive… — Kim Brooks Copy Share
I think that the expectation on parents has changed from giving your children shelter and love and support and guidance to this idea that… — Kim Brooks Copy Share
As a teenager, I'd longed to get my driver's license so I could get away from my parents. Then I'd longed to go to… — Kim Brooks Copy Share
I adore cooking and baking and holiday feasts and dining with friends and spending too much money on mind-blowing meals in wonderful restaurants, but… — Kim Brooks Copy Share
Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone. — Kim Brooks Copy Share
I wonder if all love affairs, all marriages, all lifelong partnerships, aren't in some ways a turning away from the world. — Kim Brooks Copy Share
