by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

On the occasion of the release of former BabyCenter memoirist?s new book, Catastrophic Happiness, Catherine Newman takes you back to Mom Life 2002 ? and shares what it?s like now to be the mom of two teens.
In the early 2000s, if you happened to be a happy-sappy mom, you were in luck ? that?s the way the world seemed to want it. If moms had opinions about their job that weren?t expressed by Mother?s Day cards and sweet little quotes that they hung up on the fridge, they weren?t talking. Though LiveJournal, the first widely-adopted ?regular people can write, too!? site, was launched in 1999, there was no social media, and the word ?blog? was a brand-new one for most people. What you could read about motherhood tended to be in books like the (militant, scary) attachment parenting bible The Baby Book or the (condescending, ubiquitous) What to Expect When You?re Expecting.
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