Are You a Bad Mom?
You have a client meeting via Skype in 30 minutes. Your 2 year old is busy splashing in the toilet, your 4 year old is making his own breakfast . . . dumping cereal all over the floor and your 6 year old has decided she’s not going to school because she can’t find her green socks. Realizing that you still have to find the report you’re going over with the client, the pressure mounts and you lose it, screaming at your oldest to put on any old socks and get her butt out the door because the schoolbus will be here in ten minutes and grabbing your tot away from the toilet to rinse his hands in the sink while continuing to yell at the 4 year old to leave the cereal alone and clean up his mess. Sound remotely familiar?
If you feel like your time with your kids is mostly spent yelling at them or punishing them, you probably feel like a lousy mom. It happens to everyone, you know that, but when it’s day in and day out . . . well, you start to wonder if you made a mistake somewhere along the line. Maybe you shouldn’t be working from home, or maybe (dare we think it) you shouldn’t have had kids.
It’s easy to slip into feeling like a horrible mom when you’re stuck trying to balance kids, work and house, essentially three full time jobs, all in the same 24 hours. That doesn’t mean you’re a bad mom. What it does mean is that you could probably use some help and you could handle a few solutions!
I’m currently working on a series of ebooks that will help moms who work from home get more out of their lives. I can’t promise serenity and bliss, but I can certainly help you find ways to make your life work for you and your family. But I need some help and that’s where YOU come in.
What are the biggest challenges you face as a work at home mom? What bothers you most about your kids, husband or work (or all three, let loose!)? Share your woes in the comments and I’ll incorporate them into the ebooks, including your blog or website URL if you have one.
Too shy to leave a comment? You can send me a private email at athomemomblog@gmail.com instead, just put “WAHM Survival” in the subject line so I’ll know it’s not junk.
Sometimes l think multi tasking is the bain of my life be able to be superwoman, look after the family home and bring the corn home as well.
As a single mom at home l need to be able to focus with an organisational plan for the day that l can tick every box that should have been done until all of my marketing tasks are completed, sol guess a list of checklist sheets would help a lot.
Home and work life balance is hard and takes discipline. I’ve worked from home for years just a few hours a week and boy is it great!
Excellent! Thanks, Julia, I’ll definitely consider checklists as part of the survival guide.