The Coronavirus Revival of the Stay-at-Home Mom

Could this little stay-at-home experiment—for all its drawbacks—have some benefits?

A neighbor beamed over the fact that she was getting to spend so much time at home with her children. Von Yuganov Konstantin/Shutterstock

A fascinating thing about this time in history is how it’s challenging many of our long-held beliefs and practices.

Take the conversation my sister relayed to me the other day. While out for a walk, she stopped to talk with a neighbor—from an appropriate distance, of course—and asked how she was handling time at home with her young children.