How do you care for a new mother? How do you care for a family?
If you're a citizen of the West, the answer is basically: you don't.
There's no recognition, value, or care for family anymore.
Yet there is an ancient way that most of humanity for most of time has followed that helps mothers and families thrive as multi-generational teams.
That way is still kept in places like Uganda, which Jeremy and April discuss today.
Can you even imagine this kind of support?
And if you didn't receive this support, don't worry...you get to be the one to choose to build this type of family downstream, and the work starts today as you build relationship with your children.
Stand at the crossroads and choose the ancient path.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
2:14 Stark Differences Between How Mothers Are Treated in The West vs. Africa
14:14 Ancient vs. Western Ways
21:02 The nuclear family is not the ideal
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Resources Mentioned:
Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/05/mother-west-uganda-parenting-uganda-society-switzerland
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