Life with Children

  • Life with Children

    Mom Guilt

    When you’re pregnant with your first child people are always so eager to make an uncomfortable comment, or offer up unwanted advice, or tell you how to be a mother…but the one thing that nobody ever mentioned, that no amount of books or research decided to warn me about before I became a mother was the guilt. We like to joke around and make light of it sometimes but the truth is, mom guilt is heart wrenching and real and inescapable. If I spend my entire day playing and doing fun, educational things with my children I still feel guilty when I lay in bed and realize they are going…