Hey Michelle

Cheers for adding to the conversation. I think it's great to discuss these things and listen to other views, so thank you.

On the surface I agree with you. I get what she is saying too. But if we delve a little deeper it is fraught with danger.

All this Tweet did (which is now deleted) is create a fess pit for folk who are anti non-parents in the comments. And it built the wall between non-parents and parents a little higher. I do a lot of work to try and break this wall down.

Can you imagine the anguish and hurt of someone who desperately wants children, reading something like that and then reading the comments.

But that is just the tip of the issue. Because in all honesty, not all parents experience the same lives and not all non-parents experience the same lives. We are all different.

For instance a parent with one child, a stay at home partner, a cleaner, cook and gardener is going to experience very different challenges to a single parent of 4 children on the poverty line.

But we must beware of the "hierachy of struggles" which is a notion which Dr. Edith Eger talks about and completely debunks.

In my view using our reproduction history as whether or not we are worthy of taking productivity advice from is lazy, diminishing and undermining. Because we are all different and we all have challenges in our lives.

I completely appreciate that at first glance that Tweet seems to make sense. But when we scratch below the surface it's rather problematic.