Cut the suckers is a mantra that asks us to bring awareness to what is essential in our lives. It encourages us to cultivate what we need and snip off the rest. Cut the suckers is a signal, paarticularly for working mothers with limited time, to resist the tendency to fill up every moment of our lives with action… The mantra isn’t a call to live like a monk or refuse our children’s cultural exposure, but it is a call to be intentional about what we take on. In doing so, we increase our chances of thriving or at least maintaining some semblance of sanity.