I think what you wrote, especially the end, is what you will need to be successful in life. Not successful financially, but successful in the sense that you live every day with integrity, comfortable with your decisions, and even if things don't work out the way they should, you stayed true to yourself.
As a man, I don't get to say what I think about feminism, which is silly, because I was raised around women. What they were taught is what you've expressed; that feminism is about the freedom to choose. When women make one choice for their own life, and criticize women who don't make the same choice, they are hurting their own cause.
Berating a "housewife" or "stay at home mom" is self-defeating. If that was the choice of the woman, freely, without coercion or influence, then that's the point of what was being fought for years ago, not in the 60's but before that, when women wanted the right to vote.
The way you were raised isn't how my children were raised. There are aspects of Attachment Parenting I agree with and practice, and some that I don't. That's my choice, just as it was the choice of your mother and father.
Your mother is sensitive, but not weak. Intelligent, but not overbearing. Confident in herself, but still questioning if her choices are best for you and your brother. And that's not what a woman should be... it's what a PERSON should be. I only met you once or twice, but I'm happy to see that you are your own person, speaking out on what matters with a voice that echoes with the inspiration your mother provides for you.
I look forward to reading whatever else you decide to share.
I think what you wrote, especially the end, is what you will need to be successful in life. Not successful financially, but successful in the sense that you live every day with integrity, comfortable with your decisions, and even if things don't work out the way they should, you stayed true to yourself.
As a man, I don't get to say what I think about feminism, which is silly, because I was raised around women. What they were taught is what you've expressed; that feminism is about the freedom to choose. When women make one choice for their own life, and criticize women who don't make the same choice, they are hurting their own cause.
Berating a "housewife" or "stay at home mom" is self-defeating. If that was the choice of the woman, freely, without coercion or influence, then that's the point of what was being fought for years ago, not in the 60's but before that, when women wanted the right to vote.
The way you were raised isn't how my children were raised. There are aspects of Attachment Parenting I agree with and practice, and some that I don't. That's my choice, just as it was the choice of your mother and father.
Your mother is sensitive, but not weak. Intelligent, but not overbearing. Confident in herself, but still questioning if her choices are best for you and your brother. And that's not what a woman should be... it's what a PERSON should be. I only met you once or twice, but I'm happy to see that you are your own person, speaking out on what matters with a voice that echoes with the inspiration your mother provides for you.
I look forward to reading whatever else you decide to share.