Want to Be a Good Parent? Start By Ignoring These Lies

For decades, parents—especially moms—have been fed outdated ideas about what it takes to raise happy, healthy kids. It’s time to challenge those myths and embrace a better way.

Are you a mother? Do you know one? Then you’ve seen firsthand how the title “mom” comes with a heavy load of expectations—especially in America. Mothers are told to be selfless yet ambitious, nurturing yet independent, and to somehow do it all—often alone.

But this vision of motherhood is built on outdated myths that make parenting harder than it needs to be — for mothers and fathers alike.

Award-winning writer and professor

Nancy Reddy

has written a new book that explains how these myths took hold and offers ways you can push back against each of them.