?I?m such a bad mom?
Every morning, I leave my toddler in the car while I hustle, a hound under each arm, the 10 metres to and from the gates of doggy daycare. And every morning, I cross my fingers that nobody sees me and calls the police.
I know I?m not alone. With so many rules about how or when to feed, socialize and Ferberize our offspring, good motherhood is like a really long game of Jenga: Just when you think the whole thing will collapse, you manage to add another block to the top. The collective blaring of blogs, books and public health campaigns makes it easy to second-guess ourselves.
She?s your friend and mine, she sends store-bought corn-syrup-based doughnut holes to the bake sale instead of organic scratch-baked wonder balls and uses screen time to toilet train. Her toddlers can be spotted slurping pouched purées long after they?ve learned to chew. And while she gleefully rejects the guilt involved in trying to be a perfect mom, she?s funny and carefree, and incredibly validating. Think the Bad Moms series, Workin? Moms, the entire oeuvre of Ali Wong. It?s so ubiquitous, I can hardly get through a daycare drop without another mom joking that we?re not winning ?Mom of the Year? anytime soon. It?s fun to joke about how badly we?re doing it because motherhood is ultimately not something you can win at. And it?s lonely. So when a fellow mom confesses she finds evenings with her young kids really awful, I don?t feel so isolated. But by laughing and rolling our eyes at this so-called b...
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