Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News, November 23, 2025

“I love a good, low level of drama. And motherhood has its fair share.

There is constant tension within oneself about the best way to proceed with mothering, be it with children’s discipline, academics or friends.

Then there’s the inter-mom drama, the thin line between admiration and shame that often comes up in classroom settings. The mom who somehow is having things embroidered for a classroom party with custom napkins, the one who chats up GroupMe as personal therapy, the one who forgets events despite having been reminded numerous times. (That last one is me.)

Go out a level further and you have the echo chamber of social media and tribes of motherhood, some milling flour and others in the C-suite. Somehow it feels like one way is better than another, and you’ve been doing it all wrong. Talk about a thrill.

But the tension between working mothers and stay-at-home mothers, feminist mothers versus traditionalists, MAHA mothers and vaccine-trusting mothers — at times innocent, at other times divisive and harmful — will seem quaint compared to what’s on the horizon later this century: very high drama, indeed.”