Now Is Not the Time for ‘Mom Shaming’

I became a mom about a decade ago, during the time of the so-called “Mommy Wars,” when parenting bloggers—the vast majority of which were women—often used their social media platforms to promote their style of parenting. During this time, women felt pressed to find their “tribe.” Their exclusive breastfeeding tribe, their working mom tribe, their attachment parenting tribe, their cloth-diapering tribe.