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MOMENT | The truth about queer parenting with Lotte Jeffs

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. In this week's MOMENT, writer and creative Lotte Jeffs talks about dealing with feelings of judgement, what needs to happen to improve inclusion and why everyone needs to be treated the same. This show is proudly sponsored by Stokke Continue the Conversation We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/Motherkind for £100 sponsored credit. Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:46.5

And something that, you know, a lot of our community experience in relationships, particularly in those early years,

0:55.7

you know, the first five years of going from being partners and lovers and friends to parents

1:02.2

is resentment, resentful of one partner going out to work and one staying, did you experience

1:07.9

any of that as you two were shifting between who was more at work and who was

1:11.6

more at home? Maybe at first because at first I had a job for a company for an advertising agency.

1:19.5

I managed to negotiate like two months off and then I went back but then I was quite quickly made

1:25.1

redundant. So then I ended up being at home as well.

1:28.9

But I think definitely for that first bit when I went back to work,

1:33.2

I do think Jenny was sort of resenting it.

1:37.9

And I can feel that had that continued,

1:40.5

it would have caused resentment for sure.

1:43.3

And then that becomes like not necessarily

1:45.9

about gender, but just to do with like who has got the office job and who works for themselves.

1:50.5

You know, it's like if she had had an office job, we could have split parental leave and whatever.

1:55.6

But I think it would, of course, the same sort of issues for sure. I think maybe I would have been a

2:00.3

little bit more, as I said before, aware and sort of issues for sure. I think maybe I would have been a little bit more,

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