I hope you enjoyed my piece from yesterday, if you haven’t read it yet, you can catch up here:
Am I A Bad Mum?
Am I a bad mum? This is not a question that I have asked myself many times in the almost fourteen years I have been a parent, but this week I find myself doing so.
I continued this conversation in voicenotes with my friend and fellow writer
today, until eventually I said: ‘Why don’t we just go live on Substack and everyone else can listen to us!’And so, in case you didn’t catch it live, here is a recording for you, my paid subscribers. I think you may also be able to listen, so water the garden, take the dog out, cook the dinner.
It’s an interesting — and very much unrehearsed — chat, at least I hope you’ll find it interesting, as if you are just dropping in on two friends (because we are!), and we scoot around so many topics because this is a complex one, each strand gets tangled up with another and another. I find it fascinating, and I’m left wondering, is there any correlation between young girls losing confidence with regards to their bodies and schools impressing all these rules on what’s appropriate attire on them? For example, the teacher’s comm…
