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Keynote (45–60 min) · Parent events & community audiences

Mothering

Intention versus reality

Mothering

Every mother starts with the best intentions — and then real life, real teenagers and real pressures arrive. Drawing on interviews with thousands of mothers and daughters, Madonna explores the gap between the mother we mean to be and the one the day-to-day makes us — and how to close it with less guilt and more genuine connection.

Audience takeaways

  • Children are their own people, and we need to parent each child differently. That requires research, in the same way we would research a tricky work issue.
  • Daughters will almost always push back against their mother at some point — but it doesn’t mean they won’t come back.
  • Perfection isn’t possible, and we should stop trying to achieve it.
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