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By Ria Misra - Politics DailySandra Tsing Loh's article on motherhood in this month's Atlantic has kicked off quite a discussion among my colleagues, Melinda, Lynn, Delia and Lizzie, about what makes a good parent. But, if we could set aside questions of parental quality for just a moment, I want to talk about something a little easier to measure: quantity -- namely, too much parenting. Loh references Ayelet Waldman's book on motherhood, "Bad Mother," early on, mostly to complain that Waldman, as a mother, is too good, with far too model a family to deserve the moniker. But it was a quote from the book written by the ...
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