
80. The Perfect Mother Myth and Social Construct of Motherhood
The Good Enough Mother
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The Good Enough Mother
The Good Enough Mother is a theory by Donald Winnekoff. It says that striving for the ideal of the perfect mother can not meet our children's needs in the way we think it may be. The ideology of the perfect child is built into the ideology of theperfect mother. If we want to change parenting paradigms and move towards respectful connected attuned parenting, this actually means moving towards dismantling patriarchal motherhood.
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