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My Mother’s Warfare Against Aesthetics

My mother was a fierce, stubborn, hard-working woman. She was also a woman who cared about her appearance and deeply internalized the aesthetic pressures on women.

Q&A with Betsy Brown Braun — Hollywood’s go-to parenting guru

\” . . . I\’d met so many parents who are talented career people, but can be humbled to their knees by a 4-year-old. They\’d say, \’Betsy, what do I say? What do I do? Help!\’ — so I offer actual scripts that can be a starting point for parents . . . \’

Our family’s journey to make sure our special son was included

As soon as they put him on my belly, I knew. I looked at his eyes, and they were a bit puffy, as is normal after a regular delivery, but I knew.

My husband, Mark, said he looked perfect, with all fingers and toes accounted for. I kept asking if he was all right; he was our second child, after all, and I knew he wasn\’t, because a mother knows.

Mark kept believing everything was OK until he followed the nurses down to the nursery, and they asked for pediatricians to come in. Nurses attended to our first born, Jason — not doctors.

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