Our standards for what it takes to be a good parent, particularly a good mother, are insanely high and out of proportion to all reality. Working mothers today now spend as much or more time with their kids as stay-at-home mothers in the 1960s and '70s. I found that fascinating.
...we sometimes create busyness in order to conform to this social ideal, that to be worthy is to be busy.Read more in the Atlantic. (Thanks, +Alessia Bhargava)
