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One last summer check-in to tide us all over until Season 3! Sarah and Miranda dive into the chaos and comedy of back-to-school season, teen babysitter economics, toy gun ethics, and of course, the emotional calculus of modern parenting (and Miranda accidentally makes Sarah cry). We unpack whether Stepbrothers is misogyny at its most insidious, why we are selling kids pink AK-47s, our crone fantasies, and the weird beauty of watching your kids become people.
Not relevant to the episode at all, but relevant generally:
Links
* Tilt by Emma Pattee
* The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
* Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
* Four Mothers by Abilgail Leonard
* Elena Ferrante
* Miranda ’s gun toys piece
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One last summer check-in to tide us all over until Season 3! Sarah and Miranda dive into the chaos and comedy of back-to-school season, teen babysitter economics, toy gun ethics, and of course, the emotional calculus of modern parenting (and Miranda accidentally makes Sarah cry). We unpack whether Stepbrothers is misogyny at its most insidious, why we are selling kids pink AK-47s, our crone fantasies, and the weird beauty of watching your kids become people.
Not relevant to the episode at all, but relevant generally:
Links
* Tilt by Emma Pattee
* The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
* Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
* Four Mothers by Abilgail Leonard
* Elena Ferrante
* Miranda ’s gun toys piece
If you love the work we do on Mother Of It All, please consider becoming a paid subscriber, which you can do at motherofitall.substack.com. Paid subscribers get access to everything behind the paywall, like subscriber-only episodes, book reviews and more.
If you subscribe at the founding member level, we’ll send you one of our awesome tote bags.
If you can’t become a paid subscriber, that’s OK! It’s always free and helpful to follow, share, rate and review our show here and everywhere else you listen to podcasts you love. Thank you!
* Visit our Bookshop storefront to find all the books we’ve mentioned here and in previous episodes. When you shop there, we get a small affiliate fee (yay, thank you!).
* Visit motherofitall.com to send us ideas for a future episode or learn more about the show.
* Follow the podcast on Instagram (@themotherofitall) or Bluesky (@motherofitallpod.bsky.social)

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