What It Means to be a "Good Mother" with Kate Baer

Parenting Translator

Kate Baer has always been a writer, and as soon as she became a mother, her blog and essays became about motherhood. Even with success, she felt boxed in, that people weren't respecting her work as literary. So she took a break for four years and started working on a novel - but then she started to cheat on that novel with poetry.

That poetry has become a gift for mothers, art that makes us feel like we’re not alone. It verbalizes a lot of the things we’ve been scared to say out loud because it’s taboo or it seems like this isn’t what a good mother would say.

Today, Cara chats with Kate about her writing and motherhood journeys, and asks about some of her favorite poems.

Kate Baer is the 3x New York Times bestselling author of What Kind Of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, & And Yet. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Huffington Post and The New York Times.
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Dr. Cara Goodwin, PhD, is a child psychologist and mother to three children who "translates" research on parenting and child development into information that is accurate, relevant, and useful to parents.