Quotes by Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

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The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have gone from emplo — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering s — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves starin — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
You don't have a good story until something deviates from the expected," says McAdams. "And raising children leads to so — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
And if that's the case -- if we are our remembering selves -- then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing childr — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
As parents, we sometimes mistakenly assume that things were always this way. They weren't. The modern family is just tha — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
That women bring home the bacon, fry it up, serve it for breakfast, and use its greasy remains to make candles for their — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth. — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want. — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow a — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bo — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer. — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Children live life as a controlled experiment. — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Couples with children may argue more, the author suggests, because children are a reminder of just how crucial our choic — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledg — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood