How to be a Super Mum
- Jade Eaton
- Jan 16, 2019
- 2 min read
One of the biggest fears of being a mum is to fail.
Fail ourselves, our expectations of what being a mum should be like, fear of not knowing enough and fear of not doing enough for our children. Every year there seems to be a new added pressure to mums and this generation seem to have a new goal towards being a new-mum. Being a mum, never mind a superman, is one of the most challenging things in a woman's life. Having a child changes so many aspects of life and it is difficult to cope with. Who takes over when superman gets tired?
The fear of failure consumes us all. The fear that we are somehow never going to be enough yet at what point did we ever realise what enough really was? We set ourselves standards of how we think we should be and we fear of failing ourselves. Society sets unwritten rules for how a mother should look in public, how happy a child looks, how much your child screams and cries and suddenly all eyes are looking at you to see how you decide to deal with it. Who has the right to judge?
Is it now wrong if we don't give our girls an action man and our sons Barbie? The real question is why did this ever matter in the first place? Gender is a topic that newly has become a larger issue, on how we raise our girls as girls and boys as boys. The only thing that matters is that we raise our children humble, honest and happy. The debate over gender is endless, but stereotypically a girl should not have to wear pink to be a girl and as parents, that should not be the biggest concern. Why do we feel such added pressure to follow the typical rules of how a girl should be raised?
Passed down through the generations are the valuable lessons of how to be the perfect parent but as generations change, so does society and societies opinions.
Surely we must all evolve?
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