Writing about motherhood as childhood melts away

I didn't want to write another parenting book. Now I realize why I need to.

“I didn’t want to write this book.” That was the first line of the proposal for my book The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Read (coming summer 2025 from Sourcebooks.)

For months my agent and I had gone around and around, trying to turn the book I thought I wanted - and felt ready — to write, which was broadly about entering midlife and the opportunities…