Elena Bridgers

6 days ago | elenabridgers.substack.com | Elena Bridgers

There’s been a lot of discussion about declining birth rates lately. The fertility rate in the United States reached a historic low last year, according to the CDC, and Elon Musk, our unelected president and father of 14, has said that population collapse is the greatest threat to modern civilization.

1 week ago | elenabridgers.substack.com | Elena Bridgers

Fine I’ll admit it: I’m crunchy. In fact, I come from a family so crunchy that we grew up in a house with no television, bought fresh goat milk from our crunchy friends, and sang a long, harmonious “om” before eating dinner every night. When we got sick, my mom would make us tea with honey and give us homeopathic remedies with names that I still can’t pronounce. I don’t think I even knew of the existence of Tylenol until I was in my teens.

2 weeks ago | elenabridgers.substack.com | Elena Bridgers

Hello everyone!New episode coming in hot with Minna Dubin, the author of MOM RAGE: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood. Mina is a writer, workshop facilitator, and occasional public artist in Berkeley, California. Her essays and reported articles on motherhood and identity have been featured in outlets like the New York Times, Oprah Daily, The Times, and more. In this episode we are digging into the taboo topic of mom rage. We are all angry. We all yell at our kids. But no one wants to admit it.

2 weeks ago | elenabridgers.substack.com | Elena Bridgers

If you were an alien who parachuted into the San Francisco Bay Area on any given Saturday and wound up on a playground, you might get the impression that the human mother’s natural instinct is to describe her child’s every movement and emotion to them as they go about their business. “You’re WALKING Liam! Look at you go! Good job, Liam! Keep it up. No, we don’t put sticks in our mouths. Yes, I know you want to put it in your mouth. Yes, it’s okay to be upset.

3 weeks ago | elenabridgers.substack.com | Elena Bridgers

This article is sponsored by Needed, providing moms with unrivaled nutrition for fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum. Today I woke up late, rushed to feed my children breakfast, and then hustled them off to school, arriving just before the bell. It took us about ten minutes to walk from where I parked the car to the door of the school building, and then, after kissing my son goodbye, I walked ten minutes back to my car, carrying my daughter (who does not yet go to school).