I saw this book titled, “Dirty Little Secrets From Otherwise Perfect Moms” and bought it. Boy, nothing could be closer to the truth. One of the things that I find most disturbing about being a mother is how hard mothers are on each other. Everybody seems to think that they have all the right answers and anybody else who is raising their kids different must be wrong. And yet, the truth is that we are all barely hanging on by our fingertips. The truth is that we act like we know what we’re doing because we have to – not because we really have all the answers. The truth is that we all want good, healthy, active, successful children. The truth is we aren’t perfect.

This book “outs” us. This book forces us as mothers to recognize that we all take easy shortcuts sometimes. That you know what, we aren’t perfect and neither is anybody else. Some of my favorites in this book include; “I had to use my toddler’s potty chair on the side of the road when I was stuck in traffic.” or this great one, “I signed my son up for karate because the instructor is hot” and the absolute best one, “My biggest fear as a mother is being judged by other moms”.

Here is my dirty secret for the day. I let me kids watch cartoons while I write this blog and sometimes that turns into them watching cartoons all morning. I’ve shared mine, what’s yours?