sanctimommy
Random rant, because I'm obviously an anti-social curmudgeon:
I don't understand why some mothers feel the need to one-up each other in an unspoken 'who's the best mom?' competition, played out over the ridiculous arena otherwise known as Facebook.
So in my circle of 'friends' there are several women who are mothers or who have recently become mothers. One particular new mom has been posting status updates in which she constantly congratulates herself for being a good mother. For example: 'just breastfed every hour over the last two days. Am tired but it's no problem because I'm just doing what I was created to do.'
When she's not posting these self-congratulatory updates, she's busy telling her friends what to do and what's best for their babies. One update goes: 'is tempted to breastfeed and watch tv at the same time.' When her friends tell her that it's fine and that she should do what it takes to keep herself cheerful (and awake!) she writes long replies quoting studies that children below the age of three should not be given any screen time whatsoever. I wanted to reply and say 'doesn't the baby face you when you're breastfeeding?' but I held my tongue (and my fingertips).
Another mom keeps posting photos of her child's artwork - very cute I'm sure but really just typical toddler scrawls. Now, I also think my kid's artwork is genius, but I don't feel the urge to share all of them with anyone else, not even our immediate family. When this mother keeps flooding my news feed with photo after photo of various scrawls and lines, all with captions that state 'my lil Picasso' and so on, I would just say she is fishing for compliments.
But wait: what about me? Have you seen my updates recently? Yes, the 90% of which are photos of my children with oh-so-witty captions, or so I'd like to think. I obviously have no other life to speak of because it has been subsumed by my spawn. At least I haven't been reduced to using a photo of my kid as my Facebook profile photo. (I use my dog instead.)
Glass houses and stones, glass houses and stones. My new task for tomorrow: clicking 'unsubscribe'.
I don't understand why some mothers feel the need to one-up each other in an unspoken 'who's the best mom?' competition, played out over the ridiculous arena otherwise known as Facebook.
So in my circle of 'friends' there are several women who are mothers or who have recently become mothers. One particular new mom has been posting status updates in which she constantly congratulates herself for being a good mother. For example: 'just breastfed every hour over the last two days. Am tired but it's no problem because I'm just doing what I was created to do.'
When she's not posting these self-congratulatory updates, she's busy telling her friends what to do and what's best for their babies. One update goes: 'is tempted to breastfeed and watch tv at the same time.' When her friends tell her that it's fine and that she should do what it takes to keep herself cheerful (and awake!) she writes long replies quoting studies that children below the age of three should not be given any screen time whatsoever. I wanted to reply and say 'doesn't the baby face you when you're breastfeeding?' but I held my tongue (and my fingertips).
Another mom keeps posting photos of her child's artwork - very cute I'm sure but really just typical toddler scrawls. Now, I also think my kid's artwork is genius, but I don't feel the urge to share all of them with anyone else, not even our immediate family. When this mother keeps flooding my news feed with photo after photo of various scrawls and lines, all with captions that state 'my lil Picasso' and so on, I would just say she is fishing for compliments.
But wait: what about me? Have you seen my updates recently? Yes, the 90% of which are photos of my children with oh-so-witty captions, or so I'd like to think. I obviously have no other life to speak of because it has been subsumed by my spawn. At least I haven't been reduced to using a photo of my kid as my Facebook profile photo. (I use my dog instead.)
Glass houses and stones, glass houses and stones. My new task for tomorrow: clicking 'unsubscribe'.