Motherhood
With ‘We are Family’ promos running across pretty much on everything you lay your eyes on… it got me thinking. I watched ‘Step Mom’ couple of years back, and had liked it. It does have an interesting message to take away.
I was talking to one of my friends the other day who is well in the family way. And she went on and on about how she will Not do what her friends or family are doing as new moms. For eg: how she will Not follow the feeding habits like her friend, how she will Not dress her kid like her sister dresses her kid or the disciplining styles and methods her own mom followed. And how with her “progressive” reading she will do it right. As she rambled on I asked her, so what will you Do with your kid’ and she was clueless. A ha! A ha! So much for judging others while she could have just tried some basic introspection herself.
Why are today’s mothers obsessed with perfection anyways? Why do you have to prove to the world that you are a perfect mother? Do you really believe that you are doing it perfectly for your child or are you more worried about others judging you?
Well motherhood is the single most beautiful, gratifying, emotional phase in a woman’s life, but lets face it, you are not born an expert. You will not know everything, you will make mistakes and you will learn. The way I see it motherhood is a bit of instinct, that nature is kind enough to bestow on you with and mostly experience. You get better as you keep doing it.
Not that I claim to be an expert on motherhood, but someday would like to do a decent job at it, at the least.
The common mistake most dotting mothers make today is that they try to be so superciliously perfect that they land up screwing up the most. They just don’t want to admit that they don’t know how to handle something.
The ground rule is simple : Accept – Learn – Act. Now how hard is that. Be open to learning and soon you will be good. After all its your child and you know what is best for him or her.
Easier way have 2 kids, so even if you goof up with the first you can do it right the next time around. 
ok that was not funny so I take it back, but still on some lateral plane it makes sense.
