For the mothers on my list
ESPECIALLY the new ones:
Mother's Instinct, a blog post from damomma.com.
I look at those new mothers, staggering around sleepy-eyed with stained shirts and shell-shocked expressions and I admire them. Motherhood gets a bad rap in many ways, but one of the worst is its reputation as a simple, mindless job. It isn’t. We all start out - no matter how much child care experience we’ve had - not knowing how to do this thing. And from those first moments in the hospital, through the last child’s last graduation, we are given asinine advice and criticism we have to sort through in order to find the help and counsel we need. We have to learn to respect our Mother’s Instinct, and we have to learn when to accept the advice and authority of people who know better than we do.
May we all remember that. Goodness knows I so often need to. (Case in point, me worrying to AHH the other day that Puplet was getting enough to eat. Have you SEEN him? It's a ridiculous worry. And yet.)
And while I'm here, this brief post from the same blog made me teary in the good way.
ALSO while I'm here, this LOL cat has had me laughing all afternoon.
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Mother's Instinct, a blog post from damomma.com.
I look at those new mothers, staggering around sleepy-eyed with stained shirts and shell-shocked expressions and I admire them. Motherhood gets a bad rap in many ways, but one of the worst is its reputation as a simple, mindless job. It isn’t. We all start out - no matter how much child care experience we’ve had - not knowing how to do this thing. And from those first moments in the hospital, through the last child’s last graduation, we are given asinine advice and criticism we have to sort through in order to find the help and counsel we need. We have to learn to respect our Mother’s Instinct, and we have to learn when to accept the advice and authority of people who know better than we do.
May we all remember that. Goodness knows I so often need to. (Case in point, me worrying to AHH the other day that Puplet was getting enough to eat. Have you SEEN him? It's a ridiculous worry. And yet.)
And while I'm here, this brief post from the same blog made me teary in the good way.
ALSO while I'm here, this LOL cat has had me laughing all afternoon.
see more Lolcats and funny pictures
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there.