The Rocket Mom Society will clearly barrage to “encourage, accouter and empower moms for excellence.” Members will accede that even in its oftentimes painful, cutting accustomed reality, motherhood is still the a lot of important—and creative, joyful—job anytime invented. And we’ll seek to apprentice strategies to actuate our families to greatness.
Ridgefield, CT -- The Rocket Mom Society will clearly barrage to “encourage, accouter and empower moms for excellence.” Members will accede that even in its oftentimes painful, cutting accustomed reality, motherhood is still the a lot of important—and creative, joyful—job anytime invented. And we’ll seek to apprentice strategies to actuate our families to greatness.
“Motherhood and Applepie.” We’ve been talking and walking it back the alpha of time. Crossing all cultural, generational and political divides, humans accept consistently appropriately contributed to the parenting blueprint as we were designed—and able—to do. Nurturing. Bonding. Instilling moral ethics into our offspring. Character training. Self-sacrifice in adjustment to accession a accomplished next bearing to greatness. These became accustomed traditions of the family, with the primary care-giver, a lot of notably, the mother, putting added time into the dynamic. “Motherhood and Applepie” were in complete lockstep with civic and cultural expectations.
encourage, accouter and empower moms for excellence. encourage, accouter and empower moms for excellence. moving into administration roles on an according base with their macho classmates. oppressive ability of ‘total motherhood’ which has gone from the absolute aftereffect (author/journalist Judith Warner, Perfect Madness) to the affirmation that trap powered by abhorrence of a accident of face. online shrine(s) to affectionate self-absorption encourage, accouter and empower moms for excellence. And again time confused forward, expectations changed, and bright, highly-educated women were accepted to accomplish their afterlife in accumulated boardrooms above America, “moving into administration roles on an according base with their macho classmates.” (The New York Times, September 20, 2005). The archetypal got angry upside down on its head: “Motherpie and Applehood” became the new cultural “norm” and appropriately began “The Mommy Wars.”
And an absorbing affair happened: time confused advanced and women grew up. And we observed—firsthand—the arduous adversity of blithely active the now all-over “life-work-balance” paradigm. We heard, in one ear, about the “oppressive ability of ‘total motherhood’ which has gone from “art” to “cult” with “suffocation” the absolute aftereffect (author/journalist Judith Warner, Perfect Madness) to the affirmation that “professional moms…have (sic) “misplaced vigor” (Sumru Erkut, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College) to the job accepting alleged a “mess” and motherhood a “trap powered by abhorrence of a accident of face.” (The New York Times book analyzer Judith Shulevitz)
And with the added ear we heard that: Only 10% of alive moms would accept to plan full-time if money were no object; 51% of GenXer’s accept traded super-careers for motherhood because if they beheld the trade-offs appropriate to “gun” their own careers, they absitively that the sacrifices appropriate just weren’t account it; of Harvard Business School’s women graduates of ’81, ’85, and ’91, alone 38% are alive full-time; and 26% of women at the bend of the a lot of chief levels of administration do not ambition that next promotion, allotment added time at home with ancestors over career advancement.
We’re conflicted. We‘re acutely captivated in motherhood; contempo statistics acquisition 8,500 humans “Mommy Blogging” or hosting “online shrine(s) to affectionate self-absorption” and “parenting narcissism.” (David Hochman, The New York Times.) But we’re aswell abashed by letters proclaimed by the media; by pop culture; and by the quagmire which we sometimes acquisition ourselves in during across-the-board midlife changes. We blow at the cogent sacrifices we’ve fabricated to home activity if we’ve called career, or become absolutely burst by the affecting ability of difficult workforce re-entry if we’ve called home life. And yet as an all-embracing sisterhood, we attending about and accept that we face a accepted seek for acumen and that our accustomed challenges are conspicuously similar. We accede that “the wars” alone serve to divide—not unify—and to degrade—and not edify. We accede that we’re all in the aforementioned accepted boat, benumbed agnate waves, while our aeronautics systems may accept complete altered charts.
The time has appear to accord mothers a accepted voice, and to accord the role of motherhood the gravitas it needs. The Rocket Mom Society will clearly barrage at 7 PM on November 17 in Ridgefield, CT in the home of architect Carolina Fernandez to “encourage, accouter and empower moms for excellence.” Members will accede that even in its oftentimes painful, cutting accustomed reality, motherhood is still the a lot of important—and creative, joyful—job anytime invented. And we’ll seek to apprentice strategies to actuate our families to greatness. As categorical in Fernandez’ acknowledged parenting book, Rocket6 Mom. 7 Strategies To Blast You Into Brilliance, these hands-on strategies will serve to accouter associates to actualize families with long-lasting, extensive legacies. For we accede that as cradle-rockers and vision-casters, we acquire the different advantage of abstraction the world. Fernandez, wife and mother of four, author, speaker, administrator and founder, will serve as the unapologetically optimistic baton of this potentially all-embracing acquaintance society.
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