These are the moms who like to brag that they've raised six kids but who we really know has hired a nanny to referee all the fights and a maid to clean all the mess. If I could remove my job as "Referee" and "Maid" I might like being a parent a whole lot more.
With every job, there's bound to be some tasks that you wish someone else would do, but that's what the job entails and you slosh through them. Somehow these _______ Moms have discovered how to turn those "Job Descriptions" into "That I'll do, and that someone else will suffer through while I take the glory."
The biggest problem is that we tend to idolize these ______ Moms because they are surely doing it all and we are a bunch of slobs who wear flat shoes with our jeans. I once read a quote about a ______ Mom that said "This is where she _______ (fill in the blank with some fabulous project no godly person could ever do with a child) with a toddler underfoot."
NO. That toddler was NOT underfoot. That toddler was with the Nanny. Someone else was cooking dinner, and someone else was cleaning the house so this fabulous task could get done!
And guess what? That's okay that ______ Mom has all that help and can do her fabulous projects in silence. She's very lucky. But why can't the magazines just say that. "She is a working mom." That means when her children are being looked after, she goes to work and does her fabulous project. Why can't they just be real instead of fabricating a lifestyle that can't exist. (And on another topic - why do we never call men "working dads?")
Because then the regular mom would have no one to try to be like, no reason to feel bad, no need for stupid magazines that say how someone lost the baby weight in 3 days.
The middle-class mom is really screwed.
