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It's ok not to be a supermom |
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by kiarasmom2005  (February 2007) (rank 500+) |
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I would consider alot of this to be more of an opinion than advice............
I have noticed alot with my generation ( I am 25), that there are alot of young girls have this HUGE need to be the perfect mom or super mom. I have a few moms around me teaching their kids all kinds of stuff (like sign language, and reading and the list goes on), seem to manage a full time job, all the responsibilities of the household, a social life, a love life, have the perfect appearance, can fit a full excersise program in there, and seem to be the happiest people on the planet. NOW, I think that all of this is great and I give them a huge hats off!!!
Now for me, this at one point REALLY intimidated me as a mother. After searching and talking I learned a few things.
I learned that for some mothers that may work well to be that busy and for some it may not. I learned that kids have just normal everyday stuff that they need to learn and it's ok that my daughter probably won't play mozart on the piano at 2. I learned that it is ok to get up in the morning and live in my pajamas for the day with my hair looking like I stuck my finger in the light socket.
Although we have our good days and bad days, At the end of the day my family is pretty happy. Don't feel pressured to be the perfect mom because you will make mistakes. Multitasking is a learned process....if you want to do all of those things it will come if it's meant to. Just enjoy your days with your kids, and let them know that you love them.
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I agree
mums that are buisy like that are that way cause they enjoy it, each and everyone to there own, i am a very buisy, active, mum who loves to have a clean house, cook everything, go to the gym and so on, but i do it cause it makes me happy and feels really good,i love it when my husband brags about me and hugs me and tell me how wonderful i am ect hehe (bless him) i think you would be realy surprised,one of the biggest reasons they are that way (so buisy doing what you call" trying to be a super mum") is because they are happy and healthy with alot of energy, and the rest of the family are happy because they are, not cause they have low self esteem lol
p.s not haveing a go at youeveryone to there own, people do what they enjoy, everyone is different with differnent likes and dislikes
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I agree
dunno... i've just always been like that, and i've been told several times that i am a tad old school lol, i just really enjoy the hecticness of it all, plus i've learned the inportance of keeping healthy and fit, (but i was always very heath contious even before i had kids, but i realized more so after i had kids and while haveing them the inportance of eating right and excerise, and mental health which is stemmed from your diet ect) and by continuing to take the little extra time to eat well and excersise makes all the difrference to how you feel and cope with the demands of being a mum, alot of the reason why mums get so burnt out is that not only do they get less sleep and have to deal with toddlers ect, there also not eating the right foods so not getting the adequate nutrition they need to keep up with the demands of being a mum, ( i can't believe how many people have apsolutely no understanding of what to eat and not to eat, or what a basic diet should consist of) and another thing that some mums don't realize is that by exceriseing and keeping fit they will actually have more energy, obviously if you are very unfit it would take a while to get fit , so you would find it hard to get motivated and all that, but by simply looking after your body you can ocomplish amazeing things,plus you will be more mentally sound as well, as so many mums end up on anti depressents and all that because they are tired and burned out which turns into depression, all in all, its a matter of learning how to look after yourself so you can look after others and enjoy your life, and instead of dreading the things you have to do you look forward to them as a new challenge, then feeling the satisfaction of acomplishment, wow i hope that didn't sound to preachy hehe lol, so anyway you've really gotta educate your self about your body and how it works, these are things everyone should learn
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Lexi xxx
very mature of you
