Neuroscientist, MD, and mother translating brain science into grounded, compassionate insights for parents
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When Parenting Became a Verb
This essay is a collaboration between Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD and Robert J. Hudson, MD, FAAP.
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I asked Dr. Bob what had changed most in parenting over the fifty years he had spent watching families. I expected him to say something...
Mothers I'm Reading — June 2026
Latin American Women “Nos Queremos Vivas, Libras y Sin Miedo” by Evelyn Galindo
What helps us hold on to ourselves while life keeps changing?
Motherhood is often described through milestones: the first baby, the first day of school, the n...
“Real Writers Don’t Use AI”: On Language, Privilege, and Who Gets to Sound Intelligent
A different kind of essay for this space — though ultimately about many of the same things: inequality, legitimacy, invisible labor, and the conditions under which people are expected to perform.
Stanford researchers found that AI detector...
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Image via Envisioning the American Dream “A Sweet Mother’s Day.”
We keep getting handed the wrong diagnosis.
Mothers are exhausted, so we blame Instagram. Parents are burned out, so we buy a new morning routine. Toddlers are dysregulated,...
She’s Not a Better Parent. Her Child Eats Everything.
In 1915, a worried mother in Maine wrote to the United States Children’s Bureau. Her son was refusing food. Could it be, she ventured, that he simply did not like it?
The federal expert who answered dismissed the suggestion outright. It mu...
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