Mommy Has Questions
Mommy Has Questions
Podcast Description
Join Cristina, a stay-at-home mom of three navigating her new suburban reality in Arkansas as she pulls back the curtain on motherhood with gritty and authentic conversations with the AOT Team, Jamie, Tiffany and Jess. From middle-of-the-night doubts to carpool lane epiphanies, these raw discussions blend personal experiences with practical insights. Through our distinct perspectives, we illuminate how gender dynamics shape our daily lives and discover practical approaches for change. Together, we uncover the invisible threads that connect all our stories, transforming individual moments into shared wisdom that flows through living rooms, board rooms and playgrounds.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as motherhood, gender dynamics, mental load, and societal norms. Episodes like 'Why Am I Drowning In Laundry?' explore the invisible labor women face, while 'How Did I Get Here?' dives into personal identity crises in modern parenting. Each conversation blends humor with serious examinations of issues like emotional labor, feminism, and shared responsibilities.
Join Cristina, a stay-at-home mom of three navigating her new suburban reality in Arkansas as she pulls back the curtain on motherhood with gritty and authentic conversations with the AOT Team, Jamie, Tiffany and Jess. From middle-of-the-night doubts to carpool lane epiphanies, these raw discussions blend personal experiences with practical insights. Through our distinct perspectives, we illuminate how gender dynamics shape our daily lives and discover practical approaches for change. Together, we uncover the invisible threads that connect all our stories, transforming individual moments into shared wisdom that flows through living rooms, board rooms and playgrounds.
🎙️ Episode 2: Why Am I Drowning In Laundry?
Subtitle:Loads on Loads
Cristina has 5 baskets of laundry that have been on her couch for a week. This leads to a much deeper conversation between the moms about the invisible labor women are still carrying. From 1950s housewife propaganda to the real-life stress of asking your partner to please just switch the load, this episode takes a funny, honest, and slightly ranty look at what’s really going on behind the laundry basket and all the loads: mental, emotional, and literal.
We unpack it all: gender roles, Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play, suburban vs. city mom laundry problems, and how the so-called “progress” of equality still leaves a lot of socks unmatched.
🧺 What We Talk About:
The never-ending pile: physical and metaphorical
Why women are still “the default” at home
Capitalism, gender norms, and the 1950s housewife fantasy
GI Bill + suburban development and how it pushed women back in the home
Self-medicating housewives, and the pressure to smile through it
Fair Play and how to actually divide labor in modern families
📚References
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What the 1950s were really like“What the 1950s Were Really Like”. Talking Politics With Mom. Episode 03. https://youtu.be/Mt-gPjjQw1M. Accessed 21 April 2025.
“Sure he was great but remember she did everything backwards in heels” “Cartoon Image – Bob Thaves, Frank and Ernest Cartoon.” Goodreads, https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1382202485p8/192006.jpg. Accessed 21 April 2025.
Equality and GDP Correlation European Investment Bank. “Gender Equality and Power.” EIB.org, https://www.eib.org/en/stories/gender-equality-power. Accessed 21 April 2025.
Labor Distribution in the Home Fair Play Policy. “Can We Solve for the Unequal Division of Domestic Labor.” FairPlayPolicy.org, https://fairplaypolicy.org/research/can-we-solve-for-the-unequal-division-of-domestic-labor. Accessed 21 April 2025.
Fair Play Rodsky, Eve. Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live). G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019.
The GI Bill “G.I. Bill.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill. Accessed 21 April 2025.
Women in the 1950’s workforce PBS. “Wome and Work After World War II.” PBS.org. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-work/. Accessed 21 April 2025.
What Really Made 1950s Housewives So Miserable. Gershon, Livia. JSTOR DAILY, 8 June 2017, daily.jstor.org/what-really-made-1950s-housewives-so-miserable/. Accessed 23 April 2025.
You Go to My Head: Women’s Prescription Pill Use in Postwar America. Brown, Erin K., (2022). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 8727. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/8727. Accessed 23 April 2025.
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Breaking Down Patriarchy“Breaking Down Patriarchy.” Breaking Down Patriarchy, https://breakingdownpatriarchy.com/podcast/. Accessed 23 April 2025.
👯♀️ Meet Your Hosts:
Cristina Sansone – Public health pro turned full-time stay-at-home mom of three
Jamie Dennison – Corporate exec and mom of two
Jess Kahn Marks – Former engineer and mom of two
Tiffany Hodges – Writer, actor, filmmaker, and mom of one
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Podcast IG: @momsamongotherthings
Website: mommyhasquestions.com
Presented by: momsamongotherthings.com
Key Themes:
mental load, motherhood, household chores, invisible labor, gender roles, Fair Play, Eve Rodsky, GI Bill, feminist history, suburban life, emotional labor, laundry, patriarchy, motherhood podcast, modern parenting, stay-at-home moms, working moms
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