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What's Your Dirty Little Mom Secret?
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How long has it been since you had a shower? A haircut? Sex???No matter what you said, no matter how long it's been, you're not alone. Trust us.
This week Oprah has moms buzzing: On Monday, she invited a group of moms on her show to spill the beans about the Dirty Little Secrets of motherhood. And spill they did, with confessions about skipping kid baths for weeks on end and serving pizza for breakfast three days running and hating their husbands for getting them into this. Project Runway finalist and Daily Beast columnist Laura Bennett acknowledged that she has a favorite child; blogger Heather Armstrong admitted that motherhood left her wondering, "What the hell did I do to my life?"
And while many of the confessions were hilariously funny (like the mom who peed into a diaper while driving cross country, rather than stop when the kids were sleeping), all of the women on the show agreed that being a parent sometimes left them feeling isolated and frustrated and lonely.
Being the mommy can often feel like being a contestant on "Survivor": You do what you have to do to get off the island alive. To make it worse, we treat motherhood like a competition, measuring ourselves against each other to see who can be the best mommy, the mommy with the cleanest house and the cutest kids and the cheeriest smile. But the real secret is that we're all cutting corners in some way, because none of us is perfect; sharing our secrets is a way to get past the competition and start supporting each other.
So what's your dirty little mom secret? What, in your moments of Mommy Desperation, have you done to make it through the day? Passed bakery cupcakes off as homemade? Suggested a game of hide-and-seek so you can nap in a closet? Feigned sick to get someone else to take the baby? Let's hear it.
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4-10-2009 @ 12:08PM
ttupper said...When you said:
"To make it worse, we treat motherhood like a competition, measuring ourselves against each other to see who can be the best mommy, the mommy with the cleanest house and the cutest kids and the cheeriest smile. But the real secret is that we're all cutting corners in some way, because none of us is perfect; sharing our secrets is a way to get past the competition and start supporting each other."
Truer words were never spoken!
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4-10-2009 @ 12:46PM
LS said...Or, more likely, and unfortunately, it's a way for those who are already in their corners to look down their noses and say, "see how I'm better than you are?"
And for those who put people into little boxes to say, "see? there's my proof that you're mommy style is wrong".
4-13-2009 @ 4:59PM
Hermena said...need to do yoga and meditation fo balance Can do it at home. It's not the external but internal balance that moms with li'l kids need. Wake up @ 5am and meditate for half hour followed by half hour of yoga. Do some chanting if necessary. Think outside your body(takes time) be an observer to the chaos in a disjoint sort of way.That'll provide the inner energy and tranquility. outside chaos will not get ya!! Cut out toxins like cigarettes,alcohol,latte. Your kids will suddenly be managable.
That's the eastern secret.
4-10-2009 @ 4:10PM
The Clever Mom said...I wrote my own reaction to the show here: http://theclevermom.com/?p=618
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4-10-2009 @ 8:08PM
kathy ann luke said...I USE BREAST FEEDING THE BABY AS AN EXCUSE TO GET TO WATCH MY FAVOURITE T.V SHOWS.
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4-11-2009 @ 3:43PM
cristina said...kathy i use breastfeeding (and pumping) as an excuse to watch tv or get online too! my favorite one at the moment is that since my husband is such a heavy sleeper, i sometimes tell him that our 4mo old kept me up during the night so that he'll feel guilty for not hearing him or helping me. i get to sleep in a bit longer while he feeds and entertains our 2yr old!
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4-11-2009 @ 4:14PM
Heidi said...My kids are teenagers now and I make them make and bring me coffee on most weekend mornings. But they agree that's better than dealing with me before coffee!
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4-13-2009 @ 5:20PM
Texas River Rat said...I'm pretty old and we didn't have disposable diapers when my one was a little one. My mom decided that she was going to be using the potty by the time she was a year old. She had her during the days while I went to nursing school. That went well, but the night time training was left up to me. She stayed in night diapers until she began waking me up during the night to un-pin her diaper so she could go to the bathroom! I figured out (all by myself) it was time she could sleep in panties. (Don't EVER tell my mother this!!)
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