Today's post on Mommyish is all about perfect parents. You know the ones I'm talking about. I don't think perfect parenting exists. I think these people are just big, fat liars.
I always get sucked in by these people because I am an oversharer & (at least in this context) compulsively honest. In some cases where the kids are much older now, I think mothers have a sort of self-serving amnesia that casts a rosy haze over specifics. I have hit up both my mother and mother-in-law & they have admitted that 30 or so years may have painted a somewhat more beatific picture of what being a mother of small children was actually like.
Agave nectar is a terrible substitute for sugar, by the way, which is what hipsters don't know. Next time you're presented with Agave, tell the "perfect parent" that it's high-fructose and can cause liver damage; then watch them drop the cake and run to the internet...
I always get sucked in by these people because I am an oversharer & (at least in this context) compulsively honest. In some cases where the kids are much older now, I think mothers have a sort of self-serving amnesia that casts a rosy haze over specifics. I have hit up both my mother and mother-in-law & they have admitted that 30 or so years may have painted a somewhat more beatific picture of what being a mother of small children was actually like.
ReplyDeleteAgave nectar is a terrible substitute for sugar, by the way, which is what hipsters don't know. Next time you're presented with Agave, tell the "perfect parent" that it's high-fructose and can cause liver damage; then watch them drop the cake and run to the internet...
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