I'm so happy for you! And I love the little peek at the backstory of your moment of glory. I won't likely ever write about it, but a TV show of my life while writing my book -- flashing between me researching & writing the book and then what was actually going in my life & mothering at those moments -- would be hilarious. As messy, complicated, and difficult as writing a book can be, I think mothering is even more messy, complicated & difficult.
I hope we get the chance to meet in person someday. Mothering and writing are my things too AND I loved working the cash register when I was in high school & college.
Sounds like you followed the "build something you don't want to escape from" advice you shared in your last newsletter. So happy for you! Look forward to reading your book!!
Fantastic and well deserved! I especially enjoyed the details of the moment in which you got to experience your Big Announcement as it went live. Parenting is so glamourous.
May 16, 2023·edited May 16, 2023Liked by Joanna Schroeder
WOW! Huge Congrats on your book! I feel you, I know the feeling of an urge to get it out there. (Sigh, in my case.)
This BIG thought: Different cultures and backgrounds have some different ways of raising their young and providing road maps in WHAT they want to instill. For example my Black and Hispanic and less fortunate friends don’t always (proportionately) highlight or focus on the same things as middle and upper class white folks which I am imagining this book is more tailored for. (Forgive me if I’m wrong but practical advice books with illustrations such as Workman publishes tends to cater more to progressive white folks….)
I don’t know if you can easily cross all boundaries so it appeals to and equally applies to non-white cultures and families who, for one example, must focus on surviving police brutality — on…surviving!!!- while highlighting racial prejudice against them in today’s climate and what their sons and daughters NEED TO understand and know ….
Also different cultures hold some different values; the teaching of boys to toughen up for example is still upheld in some cultures and circles - again I defer to many of the black circles I grew up with who tend to hold some more “old fashioned” values you could say— whereas progressive mostly white cultures have worked hard to help boys/ men cultivate vulnerability and re-examine and reform traditional conditioning that has been harmful to or limiting for our boys…. (As with us female conditioning and it’s dangers.)
Asian cultures too have some values and what they impress upon their boys that may be different than majority progressive white cultures.
I suppose it’s more a matter of proportion rather than suggesting that (appropriate) male/boy vulnerability, for one example, isn’t valued in most cultures nowadays .
(MAGA AHOLES EXCLUDED. YUCK)
So I hope you can hold this awareness while writing your book with the topics you listed. It’s a tall order. No book can do everything or be FOR every reader/ audience but you are ….a QUEEN!
I'm so happy for you! And I love the little peek at the backstory of your moment of glory. I won't likely ever write about it, but a TV show of my life while writing my book -- flashing between me researching & writing the book and then what was actually going in my life & mothering at those moments -- would be hilarious. As messy, complicated, and difficult as writing a book can be, I think mothering is even more messy, complicated & difficult.
I hope we get the chance to meet in person someday. Mothering and writing are my things too AND I loved working the cash register when I was in high school & college.
Sounds like you followed the "build something you don't want to escape from" advice you shared in your last newsletter. So happy for you! Look forward to reading your book!!
Fantastic and well deserved! I especially enjoyed the details of the moment in which you got to experience your Big Announcement as it went live. Parenting is so glamourous.
WOW! Huge Congrats on your book! I feel you, I know the feeling of an urge to get it out there. (Sigh, in my case.)
This BIG thought: Different cultures and backgrounds have some different ways of raising their young and providing road maps in WHAT they want to instill. For example my Black and Hispanic and less fortunate friends don’t always (proportionately) highlight or focus on the same things as middle and upper class white folks which I am imagining this book is more tailored for. (Forgive me if I’m wrong but practical advice books with illustrations such as Workman publishes tends to cater more to progressive white folks….)
I don’t know if you can easily cross all boundaries so it appeals to and equally applies to non-white cultures and families who, for one example, must focus on surviving police brutality — on…surviving!!!- while highlighting racial prejudice against them in today’s climate and what their sons and daughters NEED TO understand and know ….
Also different cultures hold some different values; the teaching of boys to toughen up for example is still upheld in some cultures and circles - again I defer to many of the black circles I grew up with who tend to hold some more “old fashioned” values you could say— whereas progressive mostly white cultures have worked hard to help boys/ men cultivate vulnerability and re-examine and reform traditional conditioning that has been harmful to or limiting for our boys…. (As with us female conditioning and it’s dangers.)
Asian cultures too have some values and what they impress upon their boys that may be different than majority progressive white cultures.
I suppose it’s more a matter of proportion rather than suggesting that (appropriate) male/boy vulnerability, for one example, isn’t valued in most cultures nowadays .
(MAGA AHOLES EXCLUDED. YUCK)
So I hope you can hold this awareness while writing your book with the topics you listed. It’s a tall order. No book can do everything or be FOR every reader/ audience but you are ….a QUEEN!
XO
Ginormous congratulations to you!