Momspreading

5 days ago | momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler

I am halfway through reading Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men (published by Transit Books, who are fundraising since the NEA took away their grant, in case you want to throw them a few dollar bucks). Without giving you any information beyond the first few pages, it’s about a woman recounting her years as a young girl in a kind of bunker prison filled with women, with mysterious circumstances and rules and a bleak existence. The weather is anything but bleak.

2 weeks ago | momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler

This Mother’s Day, I got a week plus of all the parenting while my husband went to Ireland with his own mom (shout out to MIL extraordinairess Bibi!). All the breakfast smoothies, and all the washing of the breakfast smoothie glasses and fiddly straws. All the combing of all the hair nests, and all of the not combing and wondering if the teachers clock me as an unfit mother. All the chapters of The Chocolate Touch. All the kitty litter scooping. All the one-more-tuck-ins.

1 month ago | momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler

My anti-parenting advice paretning-advice column is still kicking over at Romper! This week, I wrote about our new cat, kids doing chores, and whether pets are worth it. Given my early cat trauma, I have often cited some combination of landlord restrictions and vague allergies whenever my kids brought up pets. But when we moved out of our two-bedroom apartment into a larger house last fall, I began to run out of excuses. I also began to wonder if I was missing out on something.

1 month ago | momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler

Earlier this week I wrote about RFK’s dangerous, offensive, and incorrect comments about Autism. The internet is afire with reactions to this crap. There’s good serious stuff like this joint statement from dozens of Autism organizations (including ones often at odds with one another!) agreeing that:“Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism. Decades of scientific research confirm there is no causal link. Public health messaging must be grounded in science and protect all communities.

1 month ago | momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler

It’s Autism Acceptance Month, and last Thursday I met with five other parents and a teacher in our school library to do our annual Autism Read-In. As usual, the effort was completely last-minute and a bit miraculous, but also as usual, people showed the eff up.