“I love the book with its emphasizing on belief in yourself as a good parent. Eye opening on how to handle kids and partner with different personality from oneself.
After listening to a couple of episodes (I still plan to do more), I feel some of the content is a tad trying too hard to keep positive. The episodes about father death and period are mostly about how to look for the silver lining and remove taboo. But I would love to hear about difficulties that is almost unsolvable but we still have to co-live with.
For example, the issue that I found hard to discuss about period is not what it is and medically what it means. It is that why it feels so uncomfortable, moody, sometimes painful and messy, inconvenient to plan sport/travel/important life events around and why half of the population doesn’t have to deal with any of it. Do I tell my girls that you just drew a short straw? It is not all covered by period meaning you are in good health state. There are women who don’t have periods for genetic and medical reasons and I have only heard good things about how they feel about not having it. There are contraceptive pills to be taken which might stop periods. Should we really be talking about the freedom of not having or minimizing the inconvenience, instead of accepting it happily?”
Yingying Zhu via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/15/24