{"id":4366,"date":"2012-05-07T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents-blog\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2022-06-16T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:32:06","slug":"20-things-not-to-feel-mom-guilt-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/parenting\/moms-mothers-single-mothers-being-a-mom\/20-things-not-to-feel-mom-guilt-about\/","title":{"rendered":"20 things NOT to feel mom guilt about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mother guilt is as synonymous with parenting as poo nappies, toddler tantrums and sleepless nights. And if I had a dollar for every time I heard moms lamenting their mommy guilt, felt it myself, or read blogs and tweets about it, well, I&#8217;d be able to quit work. And thus alleviate my own mommy guilt!<\/p>\n<p>But it being Mother&#8217;s Day coming up, and the fact that we&#8217;re often hard on ourselves as moms, I thought I would outrule stuff that we probably shouldn&#8217;t be feeling guilty about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Going to work<\/li>\n<li>Enjoying work<\/li>\n<li>Not wanting to work<\/li>\n<li>Putting your child in front of Barney for an extra half hour sleep\/shower\/bath\/meal<\/li>\n<li>Lying to your competitive mom friends about how many hours your baby sleeps at a stretch when they try to outdo you with their child&#8217;s sleeping habits<\/li>\n<li>Letting your kids spend a night or weekend at their grandparents<\/li>\n<li>Locking yourself in the bathroom so that you can wee in peace<\/li>\n<li>Not bathing your child for one night because it was just too much hassle<\/li>\n<li>Not heating your baby&#8217;s bottle if they&#8217;re used to cold milk<\/li>\n<li>Not breastfeeding<\/li>\n<li>Supplementing with formula<\/li>\n<li>Not going to antenatal classes or reading childcare books<\/li>\n<li>Choosing a birth plan despite what everyone else thinks<\/li>\n<li>Giving your child cake for breakfast because that&#8217;s all he&#8217;ll eat, or to avoid a toddler tantrum<\/li>\n<li>Not feeling like sex after giving birth<\/li>\n<li>Not keeping every piece of artwork<\/li>\n<li>Not going to a class birthday party because you don&#8217;t know anyone<\/li>\n<li>Not signing up to the PTA or other parenting committee<\/li>\n<li>Saying the park or playground is closed because you&#8217;re tired to go, or because it&#8217;s too cold<\/li>\n<li>Still wishing you had your pre-pregnancy body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wishing you a wonderful and hopefully guiltless Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f49794 jkposts elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"5f49794\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><em><strong>Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Subscribe to our free weekly Jozikids\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/member-registration\/\">newsletter<\/a>\u00a0 for parents in Gauteng<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jozikids.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facebook<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/jozikids?igshid=1n8cwedrewul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instagram<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother guilt is as synonymous with parenting as poo nappies, toddler tantrums and sleepless nights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":353784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moms-mothers-single-mothers-being-a-mom","category-single-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}