I think as mothers we tend to question everything we do in terms of “have we harmed our kids.” Guilt seems to come with the job in a way that it doesn’t seem to with fathers. Also mothers tend to be lambasted in the media for having careers, not having careers, formula feeding, breastfeeding, not paying enough attention to their husbands, paying too much attention to their husbands, you get the idea.
I think that Junioer just really wanted peanuts and didn’t understand why she couldn’t have them because she is 2. Being 2 is really hard because you don’t understand yet that you aren’t the centre of the universe.
Having said that, my niece gave birth to her heart-meltingly adorable baby girl last night. When little Lucy first started kicking there was an afternoon when my sister and her younger daughter were making my niece drink icy drinks and shining lights on her tummy to try and get Lucy to kick them first. It made me think that we should have a new law protesting the unborn from this sort of harassment but it was very funny to watch.
I think as mothers we tend to question everything we do in terms of “have we harmed our kids.” Guilt seems to come with the job in a way that it doesn’t seem to with fathers. Also mothers tend to be lambasted in the media for having careers, not having careers, formula feeding, breastfeeding, not paying enough attention to their husbands, paying too much attention to their husbands, you get the idea.
I think that Junioer just really wanted peanuts and didn’t understand why she couldn’t have them because she is 2. Being 2 is really hard because you don’t understand yet that you aren’t the centre of the universe.
Having said that, my niece gave birth to her heart-meltingly adorable baby girl last night. When little Lucy first started kicking there was an afternoon when my sister and her younger daughter were making my niece drink icy drinks and shining lights on her tummy to try and get Lucy to kick them first. It made me think that we should have a new law protesting the unborn from this sort of harassment but it was very funny to watch.