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When competing grandmothers create parenting conflict

I am pregnant with my first child and both my mother and my husband's mother want to move in after the birth to help but they have completely different ideas about child-rearing.

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The abundance of elder wisdom becomes overwhelming when different traditions clash over the care of one child.

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“Where Are You with African communal parenting traditions?”

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