What else do I need to do/learn/buy/add to my plate, in order to alleviate some of this stress and discontentment I feel? I hear variations on the following questions nearly every day: The irony is that we’re more intentional, better resourced, and more informed than any generation of mothers in the history of the world, yet we still feel inadequate, burned out, defeated, and unfulfilled much of the time. No matter our demographic, many of us also feel ashamed of our messy lives and inability to “keep up,” isolated and unsure of who we can trust, and guilty that we can’t give our children more of what they deserve. As a whole, we’re also incredibly stressed, drowning in self-doubt, and filled with anxiety. There’s an inherent amount of frustration that seems quite natural when it comes to managing chaos, after all, and kids are, by nature, chaotic.īut we’re not merely frustrated. If it were mere frustration we were feeling, I wouldn’t be so concerned. What, aside from the love we feel for our children, do we feel more frequently than this? I’m even going to be so bold as to proclaim the following:įor all our many differences, frustration unites modern-day mothers. Though their life circumstances and personalities vary greatly, frustration is, undoubtedly, one of the brightest, thickest threads woven throughout the tapestry of their collective narrative, which I believe to be a microcosm of the larger narrative shared by most mothers in our culture.
Yet, for all their good intentions and hard work, the degree of frustration felt by most of these mothers is astounding. These mothers are intentional, committed to the health of their relationships, and willing to make tremendous sacrifices to ensure the well-being of their families. Every week, I hear dozens of stories from creative, motivated, educated, and relatively well-resourced women who love their children deeply.
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