She Knows
Keke Palmer has built a career on saying exactly what she means, and in her latest conversation at the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture, she didn’t sugarcoat the reality of parenting right now. Her advice to working moms? “Don’t feel guilt.”
“Your child is your child because you were meant to be their parent. And as a working parent, it could be really, really hard because you’re wondering like, ‘Damn, is this good for me and my child?’ But the reality is, if you got to work, you got to work. Just don’t feel guilt where it pertains to receiving help with your child, because it takes a village,” she told Parents.
It’s a mantra that feels radical only because we live in a country where the cost of raising a child is spiraling and the support systems barely exist. In every state, child care
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