Marie Kondo meets the life-changing magic of having small children
But it’s something else when the world’s premier tidying expert – a woman who has spent years insisting that no one, not even parents , need live with mess – is quoted as saying, “My home is messy, but the way I am spending my time is the right way for me at this time at this stage of my life.”
That neatness goes out the window for people once they have children is among the oldest clichés. In an, Edina Monsoon gets a visit from a couple she remembers from her 1960s youth as committed minimalists, living in an all-white apartment, serene and judgmental. Edina cleans frantically in anticipation of their arrival, only for them to cross her threshold with a baby – and every product anxious parents might purchase for one.
Upper-middle-class North American parenting culture has a complicated relationship to mess. There are the influencers with homes that look like nicer versions of Montessori preschools, every toy wooden and properly stored. There are no-gift birthday parties where it is an unwritten norm that gifts will still be given regardless of what the parents request.
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