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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show cover image

Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being Mindful About Parenting

"No amount of reading, no amount of advice from other family members or friends can prepare you for what it is like to have a child," she says. "You think that you're going to be able to retain some kind of your lifestyle and your identity and you can retain zero of it." People are having their first kids often in their 30s, the author says. She asks if there's something in us evolutionarily that doesn't want to hear about pregnancy and childbirth.

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