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What No One Tells You About Becoming a Mother

By Jenara Nerenberg — 2019

You can find plenty of practical information out there about pregnancy and parenting, but what about the emotional rollercoaster and identity shift that occurs for many women and their partners when they have a child?

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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The Respectful Child: How to Teach Respect (Ages 6 to 8)

Despite the ongoing need to test limits, kids also need to learn the importance of respect for others — and respect begins at home.

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Mary VanClay
2019
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It’s Perfectly OK to Call a Disabled Person ‘Disabled,’ and Here’s Why

We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.

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Brittany Wong
2019
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What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture

A grassroots civil-dialogue movement creates a new kind of safe space: one that invites students from across the political spectrum to discuss controversial issues, including policing, gender identity, and free speech itself.

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Jennifer Miller
2022
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10 Ideas for a Calming Morning Routine

If you think about it, our children must be separated from us for eight to 12 hours while they sleep. Mornings are a great opportunity to reconnect with your child after all of those hours of separation.

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Jazmine McCoy
2020
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When Mommy Dearest Isn’t So Dear: Unpacking ‘Mommy Issues’

Do you have a strained or complicated relationship with your mother? Maybe difficulties from childhood carried over into your adult relationships, setting the stage for complications with romantic partners or your own children.

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Crystal Raypole
2021
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Moms Are Burned-out: What Can We Do to Ease the Burden?

The household tasks taken over by most moms—including the often invisible emotional work—have increased exponentially.

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John Duffy
2021
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The Hidden Load: How ‘Thinking of Everything’ Holds Mums Back

When it comes to household responsibilities, women perform far more cognitive and emotional labour than men. Why is this, and is there anything we can do about it?

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Melissa Hogenboom
2021
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Against Persuasion

Philosophers aren’t the only ones who love wisdom. Everyone, philosopher or not, loves her own wisdom: the wisdom she has or takes herself to have. What distinguishes the philosopher is loving the wisdom she doesn’t have.

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Agnes Callard
2021
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How to Navigate Tricky Mother-Daughter Relationships

"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart, it don't mean a thing." — From Beloved, by Toni Morrison

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Susan Adcox
2020
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How to Improve Communication with Your Children

Sharing your feelings with your children does not mean dumping your anger on them or blaming them for your troubles.

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Shakti Gawain
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