Feeling Guilty over our Parenting Skills and Questioning Ourselves

Credit: Patti Gray

We’ve all had days where we are not our most fabulous. The kids test our patience beyond reasonable limits and we… Well, we lose it.

I’m close to one of those moments RIGHT NOW. As I’m typing this, Peanut is sitting next to me with a toy and he is having it “hop” and “jump” on me, my back, my arm and it hurts. It’s not pleasant. So I ask nicely for him to stop (he doesn’t). Then I raise my voice a little, then a little more until… Sigh. I’m never happy when I have to yell. I clinch my teeth, hold my breath, and remind myself that I didn’t go through another C-section just so I could kill the kid before he gets to kindergarten, or fully potty trained.

I. Must. Be Patient.

Erica, who you know from Fishbowl Sense and her newest home, Erica Mueller Online, shares with all of us the raw emotions of those moments where we lose it and question our parenting skills inside and out as part of our series of vlogs and posts about being a guilty parent. This is a parenting moment we can all relate to at it’s very core.

Worry not Erica, we’ve all had days like this and we’ve got many more to come.

Thank you Erica for being so brave. I know how much it takes to share a moment like this.

As you can see, not every moment is funny, or comical. Some of these moments affect us in ways we never thought possible, it’s part of the role we accepted when we decided to become parents.

About Nichole Smith

Nichole Smith has written 311 posts on The Guilty Parent.

Founder of The Guilty Parent and Chaos in the Country (http://www.chaosinthecountry.com), Nichole is a writer, blogger, social media strategist, wife to one, mother to four and embracer of mommy guilt.

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