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Parents Don't Need Self-Care, They Need Help

Even before the pandemic hit, it became popular to prioritize “self care.” Parenting podcasts like One Bad Mother have long discussed the challenges parents (particularly mothers) face in finding balance: One of their signature phrases is “I am a self,” a fact we’re meant to remind ourselves of when we feel like anything but a self. And if parenting wasn’t hard enough before, the coronavirus came