The official blog for Ann Douglas, author, radio commentator, and speaker. Ann is the creator of The Mother of All Books series and the author of Parenting Through the Storm. Her most recent parenting book, Happy Parents, Happy Kids, was published by HarperCollins Canada in February 2019. Her most recent book — Navigating The Messy Middle: A Fiercely Honest and Wildly Encouraging Guide for Midlife Women — has just been published in Canada and will be published in the US on March 28, 2023, and in the UK on May 8, 2023).
If you've got kids, you've got guilt -- which is why I jumped at the chance to write this article ("A Short History of Parental Guilt") for 49th Shelf (a website devoted to Canadian writing).
Hope you enjoy reading the piece as much as I enjoyed writing it. (It was great to have an excuse to pour through my personal collection of vintage parenting advice books once again.)