Mutha Magazine Article Allison 2021 -

Not: How can I help? Not: What do you need? But: Who will perform the functions of the mother, since you are abdicating the role?

Mutha has published hundreds of these confessions over the years—the inventory of the unseen. But Allison’s list went viral in her own small way, passed among the moms at her co-op preschool, then on a private Facebook group called The Exhausted Middle , then to a therapist who photocopied it for her clients. Because every woman read it and thought: Oh. That’s my list, too. mutha magazine article allison