“I’m mostly at peace with my other secret failings as a mom: I let my kids watch TV in the mornings,” writes Chandler Baker, a bestselling author whose latest, Cutting Teeth, is about a bunch of preschoolers who are sucking the life out of their mothers… more literally than the typical preschooler, that is. “I don’t manage to bathe them every day — fine, probably not even every other day. More than once I’ve let my kid sleep on a bare mattress when I was too tired to change the sheets in the middle of the night. And there are a lot of corn dogs and chicken nuggets going around the Baker household. I actually find joy in confessing these types of transgressions to other parents. They seem, I don’t know, kind of cute? At the very least unfiltered, harmless, nothings.” And unlike in her parenting, she feels entirely possessive and needy when it comes to her phone, which is becoming an Achilles’ heel for her. The way she discusses her devotion to her device is entirely relatable to me, and I’m sure it will be for you, too. Give it a read. Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |
