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Good Mom on Paper: Episode 17 of The Deep Dive

May 12, 2022May 30, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Teresa Wong describes the tantrums that led to her story in the anthology

A toddler screams while rolling around on the floor.

Arts & Culture

Screaming and Watercolours: I Turned My Toddler’s Tantrums into Art

May 3, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Teresa Wong

Was it unfeeling to use my child’s outbursts for an artistic pursuit?

Line drawing of a woman catching a baby with iPhones behind her against a mauve background.

Technology

Instagram’s Parent Trap

June 30, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Michelle Cyca

Influencers modelling an idyllic image of motherhood are highly clickable—but pictures never tell the whole story

An illustration where, in the background, a woman walks into a house, her head tilted up. In the foreground, at the bottom of the front steps, her daughter looks towards her mother. The house has stained glass windows and light pours out from them onto the steps.

May 2021 / Memoir

The House That Mum Built

April 21, 2021March 24, 2022 - by Anubha Momin

Touring the homes of Frank Lloyd Wright helped me see what my architect mother had always wanted in life

An illustration of three human silhouettes on a background of blue, orange, pink and peach. The large white silhouette sits behind two other silhouettes that are orange and blue.

Memoir

Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers

March 24, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Minelle Mahtani

Not long after I started my job as a radio host, my mother told me she had tongue cancer

Illustration of an elderly woman sitting in a chair with her back to the viewer. She is surrounded by animals––an owl, a leopard, a turtle, a goose, and a dog, which she pets while it sits at her feet.

April 2020

What I’ve Learned from What My Mother Has Forgotten

March 19, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Damian Rogers

My mother’s dementia made me think about my own future in a new way

Society

The Decade in Us

December 24, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From building a life without kids to why shared work offices are the worst, these are the conversations that helped define Canada

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Are You Ever Ready to Be a Mother?

May 13, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Emma Knight

I found having a child isolating—but profoundly connecting as well

Books

Motherhood Consumes the Poet

July 18, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Andreae Callanan

The literary consequences of raising a child

Video still from The Walrus Talks: the Art of Conversation

Uncategorized

Mothers and Daughters

October 16, 2014May 10, 2020 - by Lisa Moore

Talking about trust and female desire

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