Bad Mom

[beccagirl17555]

I feel like a bad mom. I feel like that a lot actually. I feel both guilty and over worked at the same time. If I become clinical about it I am probably a pretty good mom. My five year old daughter,Cat, just got a perfect report card and is doing very well in her competition dance and her gymnastics. Yesterday we even baked chocolate chip cookies

Comments

[psubrat]

I just had to comment. You are not crazy. You are not a bad mom at all. I used to be a project manager for a major telecommunications corporation so that should tell you volumes of what I was like pre-Boo. I was a go-getter who wanted it all -- and kept a clean house. I mean, it was spotless. I'm obsessive compulsive that way. And now, well, it's so not. I mean, it's clean as in there's no bugs or pizza boxes hiding under cushions, but it's not clean to me. Having a 20 month old who is extremely active makes me exhausted at the end of the day. Come 8 o'clock when he goes to bed, I just don't have the energy to expend on keeping an immaculate home. My father gives me crap about it all the time. He said that when we were that age he and my mom cleaned after we went to bed. Well, that's all fine well and good, but they were also seven and ten years younger than I am right now when they had me and believe me when I say that makes a huge difference

[tuesdayallweek]

You are not a failure! I'm right there in that boat with you. I have a five-year-old and a two-year-old and sometimes it feels like I put so much energy into them...there just isn't anything left. Ignore people who judge you over a child's temper-tantrum or the fact that yesterday's dishes are still in the sink. They obviously haven't been where you are at and they just DON'T GET IT. Raising kids IS HARD. It is the most challenging thing you could ever do in your life.

You are doing fine. Don't listen to anybody else! *HUGS*