Faster than a speeding toddler … more powerful than a Hoover upright … able to leap large PTA meetings in a single bound! It’s a bird … it’s a plane … its Super mom!
Or at least that’s who you’re trying to be. The problem is, being the perfect mom is as impossible as becoming an actual superheroit is not who we were created to be.
Barbara Rainey, co-author of the book Parenting Today’s Adolescent, understands the pressure to be perfect. “It comes from expectations that we place on ourselves,” explains the mother of six.
Add on the desire to exercise, keep your home in order and have something left over for your husband, and women can feel downright crushedwhich is how the archenemy of moms wants them to feel.
“Too often behind our smile is a growing frustration and fatigue that starts to come out in other ways,” writes Carol Kuykendall, director of communications for Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) International. “We have less patience. Shorter fuses. Headaches.”
Whether you have one child at home or 10, whether you work outside the home or not, and...