โ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ.โ โ๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ฃ, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ค๐ก ๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐ค๐ค๐ ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐จ
Heavy. Haunting.
The School For Good Mothers, though dystopian fiction, really highlights the ways in which motherhood can be judged and dismissed. Mothers are expected to be perfect all the time, but the reality of motherhood can be isolating, exhausting, and overwhelming.
In this story, our MC Frida is deemed a bad mom by social services and her 2 year old daughter is removed from her care. Frida is placed in a year-long motherhood training program where her decisions and actions are monitored and scrutinized alongside a group of other bad moms. They are degraded and dehumanized, forced to relearn how to feel in talk circle, graded on their parenting styles, and ultimately denied the right to be with their own children.
The book focuses on the pressure mothers face to give up their identity to be โgood momsโ, and I think it is an unfair expectation that hits too close to home. A country that doesnโt support motherhood should not have the right to control it.
As a mother, this book really resonated with me and left me feeling disturbed and outraged. Itโs a scary idea that the government can step in to decide what makes you a good or bad mother. This book demonstrates the danger of letting government draw that line for us.
Good literature makes you feel and think, and this book definitely did that. ๏ธ๏ธ๏ธ๏ธ