The mom-guilt is never ending.
I feel guilty if I don’t play a game with Madelyn right when she wants me to or if I don’t have time to go outside and play ball with Sebastian when he asks.
It’s because I work from home. I have to remind myself that just because I work in a home office and the kids know I’m here, doesn’t mean that I’m available to play with or provide entertainment for them. I can’t feel guilty about that… I’m working for goodness sakes! I have more of an issue with it than they do I think.
I’ve been working from home for 10 years now (atlantamoms.com and themommyinsider.com) and wouldn’t have it any other way but you’d think that I would have learned to deal with the mom-guilt by now!?
I feel guilty. A lot. I don’t like it.
Do you have mom-guilt? What about and how do you cope?
A good way to counter that mom guilt is to remind yourself — you wouldn’t be feeling guilty if you weren’t a good mom! Only the best moms feel like they can never do enough. 😉
The better questions is when do I NOT have mommy-guilt? I also have worked from home for about 10 yrs and it’s been wonderful, but I can’t turn it off sometimes when the little one would like. What I try to tell myself is even at the office people take “smoke” breaks…so I give myself “kid” breaks for 5 min every hour or so…it’s usually enough to get her through.