Is there such a thing as the perfect mother? I really don’t think so.
Are there ways to be a good mother? Award winning Guardian columnist, Suzanne Moore says yes. And I tend to agree with her.
Let’s face it, parenting is like a trying to navigate your way through a foreign country without a map or knowledge of the local language. You can read every book on the shelf but at the end of the day, you pretty much just have to trust your instincts, cross your fingers and hope for the best.
The rights and the wrongs are fairly black and white. DO NOT let them play on the road or light matches. DO try to feed them nutritious food and keep them sheltered and safe.
But there are some other, less obvious lessons as parents that we can’t be told about, that we have to experience firsthand to understand.
Suzanne Moore points out, it’s not all about you.
In her recent article that was published in The Observer, “How to be a good mother”, Moore encourages mothers to relax, recognise that no child ever died from crying and most importantly, to get a lock for the bedroom door “If you ever want to have sex again”.
Here are some more of her wisdoms: