Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12. To honor and celebrate you, Mom, this week I’m posting about the tough—but oh, so rewarding— job of motherhood. Today’s post is the first in a series that I’m calling “Get Off the Crazy Train.”
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12. To honor and celebrate you, Mom, this week I’m posting about the tough—but oh, so rewarding— job of motherhood. Today’s post is the first in a series that I’m calling “Get Off the Crazy Train.”
I’ll also be giving away five copies of my book, The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers. Just leave me a comment on any of the blog posts this week (May 6-9), and you’ll be entered to win. Share the post via Facebook or Twitter and you can earn two more entries. Just come back to the blog post and leave a comment for each action. I’ll announce the five winners on Friday, May 10.
We’re all on it. It picks up speed each day, rumbling to the place we want to get to but have no idea what it’s like or even what it’s called. It is the crazy train, and we ride not because we want to.
As a matter of fact we hate it, but we ride because, well, everyone else we know is riding. They are there standing next to us, weaving back and forth with the same rhythm. Some are calmer; some are more anxious. But we are all there because that’s where we need to be. We think.
On the train, we awaken in the morning and start checking things off of our list. That list for most of us good, conscientious mothers looks something like this:
1. Make sure to breast feed each child until he is at least two.
2. Get him into the appropriate preschool, preferably one that will teach him colors, letters, and numbers, so that he is ready for kindergarten.
3. Don’t start him in kindergarten too early or too late because the consequences in high school could be serious.
4. Make sure he is in the fast reading group in first grade. If he isn’t, hire a tutor who will catch him up.
5. In second grade, make sure that sports, dance, and music lessons are started to help him figure out where his talents lie.
6. Volunteer as “Room Mom” for each child for at least one year; serve on the PTO Board, if at all possible.