Parent Guilt on American Son
Is mother’s guilt eternal, does mother’s guilt ever end It creeps up on you in the dead of night while the world sleeps. I happens in the middle if dinner when they’re eating and make the slightest of faces is it not good enough? I find myself asking when he just simply hates peas. Mothers guilt is unforgiving when you’re the only one that pulls up t your son soccer practice without a jacket and its 55 degree out. Watching silently while all the other moms holding their child’s jacket as if your guilt wasn’t screaming loud enough. You lay asleep at night wondering what your in laws think of you newbie mothering skills as you correct bad habits they’ve clearly created by allowing him to do as he pleases. Newly broken in you have to be the one to make him cry, as you readjust what is his normal from what you don’t want to see. Bad habits such as watching the TV too closely. Not wanting to wear his jacket, using a Binky at age 3, and going to sleep by 830pm. Theirs guilt that co...