August 21st, 2011, posted by Aimee
‘Fessing up comes pretty naturally to me. Those who know me are well aware of my poor lying skills and my sometimes unfortunate propensity for volunteering too much information, as well as, let’s just say, being a little too blunt for my own good. So, “coming clean” is definitely not the toughest task for me. Except, that is, on the topic of my mothering skills.
Like most moms – particularly us working moms constantly battling guilt and self-doubt – I have a really hard time admitting my short-comings in the mothering department. I may not care a whit about leaving the house with a rip in my skirt hem or admitting that most of my jewelry comes from Target. But confessing anything related to my kid is, well, tougher.
But after reading last week’s Today Show/Parenting Magazine survey, I kept thinking about coming clean about my own worst sins. Candid copy is good copy, right? Plus, many of you can read this post and feel so much better about yourselves afterward. So, in the name of taking one for more...
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August 11th, 2011, posted by Aimee
So, the headlines of the recent survey from Today.com and Parenting Magazine were admittedly jarring i.e., “44 percent of moms would rather be 15 pounds thinner than add 15 points to their child’s IQ.” By the time Huffington Post had picked up the story, emails from 20-something (childless) coworkers, tweets and Facebook posts were flying.
“OMG! Can you believe these horrible moms? WTF?”
Well … actually, I can believe it. And, um, I would venture to say that a solid percentage of the working moms I know – given a hefty dose of truth serum (aka, tequila shots or large quantities of chardonnay on a long girls-only weekend) would probably agree with many of the most seemingly shocking confessions in the poll.
To take one for the team, I thought I would take the same poll and bare my soul in the name of womo-solidarity. Confessions are cleansing, right? So here goes, girls … how I stack up against the scary statistics:
From the Today.com story:
44 percent of moms would rather be 15 pounds thinner than more...
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How pathetic is it that I am stressing out more right now about whether to get a second kitten than I ever worried about whether or not to have a second child? Don’t answer that.
Yes it’s true. I have been putting in sleepless night after sleepless night and filling endless yellow legal pads with pros and cons all dedicated to the ridiculously mundane decision over whether to adopt a second baby cat into our home. And yes, it’s also true that I never lost a single night of sleep over our decision to make our son an only child.
Okay, some background on the issue:
I was an “older” mom to begin with. When you have your first child at 38, it doesn’t leave a ton of options for large families or even any siblings. I think this gave me a convenient excuse to disguise a long-held personal desire for the simplicity of a one-child household. That and the desire more...
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