Family dinner. Doesn't that have a nice ring to it? Doesn't it evoke images of kids with really good posture and parents who love all four food groups equally? No wrestling, no potty humor, and definitely no trick forks. Does such a thing exist?

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Motherhood is not a relationship of emotional equals. The hard, enduring truth that you are selfish and your mother is not, and that you must pay her selflessness forward to your own children, who may never thank you and certainly will never love you as much as you love them....

I started working for women's magazines at the age of 27 and, like any good 27-year-old editorial assistant, immediately began making sweeping assumptions about the women above me on the editorial food chain. One of my biggest assumptions was that a woman could not successfully manage both a magazine and...