What, Like It's Hard?
Courtney McGeeMotherhood is so much better than the internet wants you to think. I'm Courtney, a former national news producer turned writer raising three girls in Queens. I write about all the ways we're accidentally making parenthood harder than it should be.
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The opt out edit
It dawned on me on day 5 of summer vacation. Everybody was home, all of the time. I’m down to one part time writing client so that I can be, well, absolutely everything to three little humans all of the time.
I was in the middle of making...
The moms who make it look easy aren't different than you
I hadn’t even made it to the restaurant yet, but in my head I was planning my early exit.
The baby is going to scream the entire time.
I’m not going to have a second to actually eat.
Will the bigger girls sit and color?
Or will the...
A public goodbye to a child who isn’t gone yet
The sun is shining through the windows of the school auditorium. Your five year old is beaming at the back of the gym, so excited to walk down the aisle.
You say a silent prayer that her slightly too big shoes don’t lead to a disaster.
Yo...
We’re quietly teaching our kids that everything is more important than them
A Note I posted last week got more traction than anything I’ve written. This is the essay it was trying to be.
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It happened so quickly I almost missed it.
There was my kindergartener, answering a question her gran...
How to stream like a 90's mom
I love TV.
Weirdly, saying that outloud as a mom feels akin to yelling the f-word in church. But I do, I love it–I’ve always loved it.
And lately I’ve been thinking that TV got blamed for a problem it didn’t actually create. Because TV, w...
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