Kaitlin Soule has been thinking lately about the term “supermom” – and why it totally rubs her the wrong way. It’s simple, really: “What I’ve come to recognize, both from my own experience as a mom to three and from my thousands of hours doing therapy with moms, is that the work of motherhood is often quite simply invisible,” she writes.
The whole supermom archetype just buries that work even further out of sight, she thinks: “Women know all too well is that if we dare let others see what it truly takes to be ‘supermom’ we will be seen as weak, incapable (or worst of all) ungrateful for the gift of motherhood.” It’ll make you look at the whole greeting-card aisle very differently.
— Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |
