The therapy account's gonna be bigger, by the way. You'll have overachieving mommies over here socking away money for their kids to go to Harvard and therapy. You see, it's a mommy war, and the fighting will be dirty. I now realize that the instructor should have put a General Patton helmet on her head and barked, "Ladies, clamp your legs together, because there's a war coming, and it ain't gonna be pretty. My special place involved lots of tranquillizers and vanilla lattes and sadly never materialized. In the long-ago days when I was huge with my first baby, a well-meaning prenatal instructor at a Los Angeles hospital advised that when agonizing pains racked our bodies, instead of ripping our husbands' fingers from their hands and screaming, "What have you done to me," in their faces, we should breathe deeply and "go to our special place." Simply, she's calling for a ceasefire in the so-called "mommy wars," for mothers to stop being so hard on themselves, and so snarky about their neighbours' choices. "It's our imperfections that make us human," Netmums co-founder Siobhan Freegard said. He may be a rich and insensitive Tory, but he did make his infant daughter Florence sleep in a cardboard box, so he can't be all bad. Netmums is calling for a "real parenting revolution," which is backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Half of them thought they were doing a poorer job than their friends (who are, of course, also lying about the amount of flax they feed their kids). They pretend to be baking cakes for the school fair when, in fact, they are napping.
#The monster within the hidden side of motherhood tv#
The mothers lie to each other about how much (that should be "little") time their children spend on TV and video games. They lie so that they don't feel guilty about the kitchen that can't be used as a surgical theatre, or children who don't play like Rostropovich and never get to hang out in Stella McCartney's backyard. This week, British website released a telling survey of its 5,000 members, which essentially said mothers despair over their parenting skills and lie to each other constantly to save face.