Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt is a monster, good guilt is a friendly fairy godmother, yakking away in your… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule their children into activities and classes. Similarly, some at-home mothers,... can make at- home mothering into a bigger deal than it is, over stimulating, overeducating, and overwhelming their children with purposeful attention. — Jean Marzollo Copy Share
In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is,… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't respectthe natural… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother;… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers. — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
