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[quote=Anonymous]Remember the $100 race video that was floating around social media ~5 years ago? Take two steps forward if your parents are married, 2 steps forward if you had access to private school, etc. All these privileged kids were halfway to the finish line before the race even started.

I’ve been thinking about it in relation to motherhood recently. How differently different mothers approach the “race”. What invisible things give some women two steps forward while others are stuck on the starting line. Things like having good parents who provide emotional support. Close friends to share motherhood with. Access to backup childcare. Extended family members who visit and light up when your children walk into the room. Friends or family who offer to take your children for a couple hours on the weekend. Access to (and ability to pay for) resources for children with special needs. Enough disposable income to outsource cleaning, landscaping, and repairs. A career that pays enough $ and has flexible enough hours to feel sustainable through the early childhood years. A partner who shares the load, physically and emotionally.

Consider this the next time you start to question why moms with seemingly similar lives don’t have the same bandwidth for extras like PTA volunteering or hosting play dates. [/quote]

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