My Fertile Brain
Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD, Ayla De Grandpre | MotherLoreNeuroscientist, MD, and mother translating brain science into grounded, compassionate insights for parents
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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...
You Should Not Train Your Toddler Like a Puppy
A child who complies easily makes adults feel competent. A child who resists makes adults feel tested. From there, it is only a short step to morality: the compliant child becomes evidence of good parenting; the difficult child becomes evid...
She’s Not a Better Parent. Her Child Is Easier.
She told me she never raised her voice. I believed her. I just didn’t understand yet what she had that I didn’t.
You know her.
She’s at the playground, at the birthday party, in the parenting Facebook group — giving advice with the calm...
Mothers I’m Reading — May 2026
Artwork by Ellen Mote
I didn’t expect how many of you would write back.
I read every submission slowly. Not to evaluate it, but to understand what was being said underneath the words — what it actually feels like, from the inside, to be l...
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