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Motherhood has always raised more questions in my mind than it has answered.

Catherine Myers reflects on her children's early years and the decision she and her husband made to try preschool and then to drop out, raising their children without school thr

I wondered if I was cut out for motherhood, a role that seemed to demand so much that was foreign to me.

Appreciation. Everybody craves it but often we treat it as a scarce commodity, hoarding it to ourselves.

Raising children is not an evasion of the realities of the adult world; neither is it an indulgent exercise in ego gratification.

My mother was a good mother, but she didn’t really believe in keeping house.

When I was a child, I didn’t know anyone who wanted to be a maid when she grew up.

In the not-so-distant past, even mothers who were unable to hire help or did not have family living nearby were usually able to take a cheap, easy break called "Go outside and p

A mother reflects on 'cloudy day' moods.