Stop Telling Me I Need a Village and Help Me Build One

A plea from an exhausted mother

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Pro tip: If you ever want to piss me off, just shake your head, shrug your shoulders, and tell me, “It takes a village.”

Maybe add a tsk tsk in there for good measure.

People love to tell parents, particularly exhausted mothers, that “it takes a village.” And yet the…