Mummy Matters

Why is it, I wondered as I took some deep slow breaths, that just when we feel pushed to the absolute limit, our kids seem to be deliberately out to ‘get us’? As they catapult us directly into our ‘out of control’ zone, we react in ways that are irrational and way out of proportion to the event. We open our mouths to teach our kids a lesson and out comes – our mother! Not only are we the parent we don’t want to be, we have turned into the parent we swore we would never become.

As they catapult us directly into our ‘out of control’ zone, we react in ways that are irrational and way out of proportion to the event. We open our mouths to teach our kids a lesson and out comes – our mother! Not only are we the parent we don’t want to be, we have turned into the parent we swore we would never become.
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I have though thought long and hard about how we do get through (mothering) with our sanity (mostly) intact. Of course, there are those who would debate the definitions of ‘sanity’ and ‘intact’ and I am the first to acknowledge that we become changed beings through the journey of mothering small (and not so small) people, but I am utterly convinced that the most important survival factor for any mum is great girlfriends.