Mom Police on Constant Duty

"We always notice everything: The mom police are on constant duty. ... Mothers are under much more constant observation and social pressure than they would like to admit. And this doesn't make it easy, ...

to go their own way, which they may have to discover. Of course, there are always fanatics, even if it's just about walls, but when it comes to parenting, there seem to be particularly many of them - and particularly loud ones too. Maybe because it's just so important. ... But we also have to admit that the tsk-tsk reflex is deeply ingrained in all parents."

Ayelet Waldman: Böse Mütter