Yes. I am MOM ENOUGH
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 9:56PM After writing about the current cover of time magazine earlier today for ShePosts, I just kept thinking about that headline and what Time magazine was trying to achieve with that headline.
I get that they are in the business of selling magazines, but to put something out there that pits moms against each other just a few days before the holiday that celebrates us just...well...sucks.
Parenthood, in its essence, is about survival. Making it through each day to the best of your ability. Some days you will feel like a failure. Others you will feel triumphant. Some days you will laugh, while others you want to cry and drink chardonnay. It's not easy. No mother out there will say that being a mom is a walk in the park. Daily every aspect of your being - from you patience to your intelligence - is challenged, and as moms we need to be there for each other. For support. For guidance. To laugh with. To talk things through with.
NOT to judge each other. Not to make another mom feel inferior for how they are raising their kids. Not to make each other feel freakish or guarded over the choices they make for THEIR FAMILY.
Who the hell cares if you breastfeed until your child is four or if you give your baby a baby a bottle from day one? What good comes out of making anyone feel less for doing what they feel is right for their child?
Moms - we are in this together. We need to stand together and not tolerate the perpetuation of these so-called "mommy wars." Because you are a mom and you are doing the best job you can do.
And yes. We ALL are mom enough.
This Mother's Day reach out to your friends, your sisters and your own moms and tell them you think that they are doing a great job. Because that's all a mom really wants to hear every once in awhile.
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Reader Comments (7)
Amen, mama!
AMEN SISTER!
Wth man? We are suppose to be celebrating moms. Even if you have a tiff with your Mom this is the one day a year that all is forgiven. Way to go Time Magazine. #Fail
Love it.
It's all about selling papers these days. That cover was absurd because no-one stands on a chair and suckles. Every MOM is MOM enough!! Plus, what about all the moms that can't breastfeed...adopted kids, surrogate, etc. That just makes everyone feel bad.
I agree 110%, loved and needed this today! :)
SO FUNNY Beth, that's exactly what I just went off about in a facebook comment! So frustrating. It's like Time Mag wants moms to fight right now...just for PR. right? Here is what I wrote:
i always wonder why everybody has to care what everybody else does!!!! i mean, i understand news is news! but gosh, it's like leave everybody out of your own parenting decisions. i have friends who breast fed until 4 and are not even close to being attachment parenting types. i have friends who wear their kids but bottle feed. and then there's those like me who basically did all of the above - with no rhyme or reason. i never even read a parenting book. i just did what worked for ME!!!! and allowed me to be a mom but also feel rested and happy! i mean, there is no mom expert out there! so why does anybody think they know best. and why doesn't anybody think they have the right to judge somebody else's way? ugh. i mean who cares about the APers or the non-APers. and who cares about the "formula feeders". and the non-vaccinators or the cloth diapers?? do whatever makes you feel good. don't do something because somebody else thinks its right, or because you want to be "better" than another parent? we'll never all gonna be the same. but nobody is "weirder" than another. that's what i think anyways.