by Melissa Willets posted in Parenting

One mom's messy car photo that was shared on the Love What Matters Facebook page has, rather oddly, stirred up a major controversy. The photo and accompanying post by Nikki Pennington, who blogs at Grief to Hope, has ultimately turned moms against one another as they argue whether having a car littered with used water bottles, take-out containers, and clothes means you can still be a good parent.
"I'd like to give a shout out to all my fellow hot mess school moms," Nikki wrote in the now-viral post, adding in part, "The ones that let their child out at the drop off line and yesterday mornings breakfast wrapper rolls out with them. The moms that haven't been able to find the floor board of their vehicles since August 1st of last year. The moms that just found that homework assignment they were supposed to sign while cleaning out their cars."
Nikki continued in her post, "To the moms still trying to find where that smell in the truck is coming from that started sometime after August 1st. To the moms that live inside their cars four times a day, five days a week and don't have time to clean up that mess, they just move it over. To the moms that pull up to the drop off line with a minute to spare and hear everything in their vehicle shift as they slam on the breaks because breakfast, snacks, school projects and emergency toys while waiting in the pickup line pile up fast y'all..."
"May we know ...