This mom gig is hard. It's true. You're expected to work 24/7. There is no pay. And you can't just fake it. Because in the end, however it all turns out, good or bad, you're going to be held responsible - by your kids and their psychiatrists, if not by yourself.
Most days, I think I'm doing a pretty good job. All my kids are doing well in school. I've got two starting their junior year in high school, one getting ready to graduate college this year. No drugs. No tattoos. No nose rings.
But I've always felt that sharing the trials you've been through, with your kids and as a mother, is helpful to other moms going through their own hard times. It's hard to see, when your kid is going through the Tantrum Two's, that it won't last forever, that it will pass, only to be replaced by some other equally difficult phase. But it will. I assure younger moms of this all the time.
It always made me feel better, as a young mom, to be reassured - as I looked down at my preschooler, rolling around on the grocery store linoleum, screaming at the top of her lungs - that this type of behavior was not unheard of in a 3-year-old.
So I'll share a site I found with you today. It's
True Mom Confessions.com. Read it and take comfort.
You are not alone.
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