
Matriarch Rising
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Matriarch Rising
@AprilB18418
Niche down they say, but I cannot. For I am a matriarch raising heroes, healers, leaders, warriors, and world changers. For them the niche is not small.







In the 90s the waif models were incredibly thin. Kate Moss was famous for it. But they still looked alive. Faces full of expression. Bodies with energy and playfulness. a kind of mischievous vitality. What we’re seeing now is different. Hollow faces. Flat expressions. Bodies that look drained rather than simply lean. And it makes sense biologically. GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic don’t just suppress appetite. They blunt reward signaling in the brain, so people want less of everything. The body gets smaller, and the spark seems to go with it. Thinness used to look like lightness. This feels almost… anti-life.









I think this chart might be my favorite, because it reveals at least two telling things about modern parenthood. 1. One reason father childcare time has increased so much in the last half century is that after the rise of the dual-earner household post-1960, many dads who took on more childcare realized that ... it was kinda nice? That they even ... liked their kids!? 2. But this fact is inseparable from another fact, which is that mothers' childcare time has also increased significantly, and moms consistently take on less fun parenting tasks, like planning, coordinating, and solo parenting. As a result, there is now a rather linear relationship between the fun-ness of a parenting task and the likelihood that dad does more of it.



Dating a first born daughter means you have 0.2 seconds to help. After that she’s climbing the counter moving the ladder and nearly dying because you took forever to help.😭

I think as a culture we need to move on from making Mother's Day a generational battle


"Rilee Stewart and Brock Goodwin always imagined having several children... But that vision shifted once they settled into their 2,000-sq-foot house with a $3,200 mortgage... They realized that even with one child, they would most likely need more space." nytimes.com/2026/04/26/bus…

Ok we’ve all been on a “my wedding dress was THIS cheap” kick, but now I wanna know how many kids you’re raising in a MUCH smaller house than this. We have 1500 sq feet and 4 kids.


God sends small children into the world to expose men. you think you are holy until a three year old throws a bowl of cereal at the wall for the third time. you think you are patient until you have not slept for five nights straight, and the baby is still screaming. every half man, is found out by his own offspring. children are judges, sent in miniature to read your verdict out loud. God could have judged us from the throne. instead, he sent us toddlers. more effective










