When Are You Going To Lose That Baby Weight? & Other Things You Shouldn’t Say To Your Mommy Friends

Is being a parent really that hard/Does it take all of that?

I feel like the media is finally starting to get real with how tumultuous child raising is.  At first you used to see these fresh faced, thin women taking care of these silent, well behaved babies, and then people would think:  “So that’s what child raising is like.”  But (and not knocking raising my daughter, because she’s the best thing to ever happen to me) raising a child can sometimes suck!

There are so many random things that go on that even those stupid baby books don’t alert the pregnant readers about. Then, when those moments come, there are things that you might have to do to help you deal.  So if cooking a bunch of meals on Sunday night and freezing them so all you have to do is heat them up to feed your child is what she needs to do, then let her.  If crying in the shower is a way to get the frustrations out, then give her a kleenex when she’s in her towel.

The thing I’m trying to say is, even if what your friend is doing is seemingly “a whole lot of nothing,” or “too complicated,” it’s what she decided to do to make parenting easier for her.  Trust me, no parent is interested in making the already difficult job of parenting more difficult.  So even if what they’re doing seems archaic to you, it’s soothing for her.  You don’t have to understand it, but accept it.