Can’t you clearly recall an afternoon sitting at a restaurant with your best girlfriend in your mid-20s watching a young mother pretending not to hear her screaming toddler while quickly trying to enjoy her lunch.
“Oh my god,” your best friend said, “she has to be the worst mother ever.”
“When I’m a mother, I will never let my kid behave like that in public,” you replied. Oh how naive you were.
Becoming a parent is like sitting down for an all you can eat buffet of all the things you said you “weren’t going to do”. Screen time, giving in to your sweet baby’s smiling request for chocolate, giving up completely on please and thank you.
It is wild how being on the outside of something gives you some kind of clarity where you think you have all the answers.
Just think of all the times you have done something for your child where your inner 20-year-old self does a giant eye-roll.
As a childless human it is so very easy to imagine your Von Trapp children all marching around to your beck and call. As a parent just getting your child to behave for 10 minutes can sometimes feel like a complete miracle.
Just remember you aren’t alone.
When those snarky 20-somethings glare at you on planes or don’t bother to offer to help you hold the door while you wrestle your kid into a shopping cart, take heart. Chances are they will raise completely out of control babies that will serve up all the things they said on a silver platter.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
-The EliteBaby Team
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