Not a Picture Perfect Parent: Unfiltered Motherhood from Birth to Adulthood.
Now more than ever, there is great need for a book to show the unfiltered side of motherhood. The exhaustion, the mistakes, the things we don’t post about.
I got stuck in that comparison game about five years ago. Scrolling through social media became difficult.
So many perfect moments:
Perfect husbands
Perfect vacations
Perfect children
I wasn’t perfect…, I’m still not perfect. I found myself feeling jealous of others and feeling sorry for myself.
Not only was social media being filled with perfect photos there was a very serious toxic culture being born right before my eyes.
MOM SHAMING
Truly an awful thing. Moms were bashing other moms because they choose to parent differently. They formed mom tribes to attack other moms… I’m embarrassed to admit I was once part of one.
What I know now, is that the reason I was being mean, was because I was truly unhappy. So were these other moms.
Happy people don’t bash other people, unhappy people do! Let that sink in.
My book was inspired by the heaviness I felt seeing all those perfect posts and hearing moms nonstop bashing one another. How can we share our not-so-perfect selves when there are moms just waiting to beat you down and make you feel worse?
NOT ACCEPTABLE
It’s easy to judge others when you have never made that mistake. Once you have made a similar mistake you realize, it’s not always a bad mom who made those mistakes, it was a human mom.
A mom who is frazzled
A mom who is stressed
A mom trying to hold it all together because she knows that if she shows weakness or failure she will get ripped apart in lion’s den.
If this case the lioness den because woman are much more ferocious than men when it comes to gossip and shaming.
We have to stop this mamas, there is NO good coming from it.
Mom shaming still exists, we need to make a change, we can do better.
