Mothers are seen as the ultimate enforcers of rules and that frustrates me as a former Party Girl Motherhood is perceived as so deeply uncool.
Not fatherhood of course. Never men. Fathers are interesting, fathers are fun, fathers aren’t forced to be seen as only fathers.
When my toddlers barge in to shout in the background of my husband’s work Zoom calls, everyone smiles indulgently. Remember that man being interviewed on the BBC with the two cute children and panicky wife?
He became an overnight celebrity while the world debated whether the frazzled woman was his wife or the nanny. But this isn’t about the men, the fathers.