Super Mom

Everyone knows the mom who has to make homemade cards for holidays and birthdays, who never uses artificial anything and would die if her children preferred McDonald's over risotto, who needs to get a life. Being involved with your children is one thing. Being invested in them is another. This opinion piece deals with the overachievers of the mom world. I myself don't have that problem. Which I suppose is another sort of awful. Maybe I do need to take a hint from supermom and start running my home like a Fortune 500 company. First step, a big raise for the CEO (me).

Damned If You Do...

This article from The New York Times (I love, love, love The Times and I must say I feel smarter since I've started reading the headlines every morning and afternoon) talks about Sarah Palin and the struggle to be a working mom. Now no matter your personal feelings about Ms. Palin (maybe the "Ms." gives mine away) I am perplexed as to the double bind women are in. First there's the stay at home versus working mom debate but now there's the "You should stay at home and not work if you have five kids or one special needs baby." Who gets to decide? What about all of the male senators and representatives with young kids? Don't they need their dads too?

Oh Great, Now I Have More Stress

According to this article, a mother's stress level can make her children overweight. It doesn't really mention the mother's weight and if the additional food intake is shared in the household. Oh, and just to be fair they're going to measure the effects of dad's stress level next. That's big of them.

OMG I'm Turning into My Mother

At some point every woman thinks this. It usually comes after children when the words,"Because I said so," slip out. Turning into your mother can be a good or bad thing depending on the quality. It seems like we fight against it when we're younger and embrace it when we're older. Maybe we realize the value of their wisdom and experience as we gain perspective.

You Don't Say

This comes as a total surprise.