There’s been much made about the pressure moms feel from society and then the backlash of the “bad moms”. Jaelithe sums the whole kit and caboodle up well with her post about the situation, describing her own mother alternately as a woman who rocked hardcore and also had her faults.

It makes me think about how people see only one tiny little bit of who a person is on the internet and then has their minds made up about whether that person is a good parent or not. I suppose if you read every post I’ve ever written on the internet, including those that are locked to friends-only and those that are so old you can’t find them anymore, you might be able to form a good opinion on who I really am. But you still wouldn’t KNOW me or whether or not I’m a good mother. As a matter of fact, nobody can, since I alternate between good mother and bad mother all the time.

I think we all do. I think some mothers are better than others just as there are others who are significantly worse. But for the vast majority of us in the middle, we’re all good moms and bad moms every day. It just depends on which way the wind happens to be blowing at the time.