Do you ever feel like a bad mom?

Philippines
July 29, 2010 2:43am CST
Sometimes its easy to feel overwhelmed especially if you have a young child. You feel like you can't get anything done or time for you. It does help to leave your child with someone from your family. You feel would be able to watch your little one for you. That way you can have some "ME" time.
5 responses
@george000 (166)
• India
29 Jul 10
I cannot feel like a bad mom because she always busy with her works .She always be a tentative and look for the well fare of the house .If my child does not help to leave from my family I will look after them and stay with them only.
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• India
31 Jul 10
Sometimes I feel I am bad mom because I will not get time to play with my kid and I need to go do my work.I leave my kid with my mom and she is the one who is always here for my kid.I know being mother I need to spend more time with kid.Mother is only one person who knows the problem of their child and solve it.
@pastigger (612)
• United States
29 Jul 10
I have always been a person that just needs some time to myself, some down time. But since having my daughter I have not had much of it. Most of my me time is after she goes to bed. We have a lot of family in town but they are farther away so they don't watch her a lot. I have only left her with family a handful of times and she is three now. I don't like being away from her and I don't like not know what is going on. I do leave her with my husband from time to time but mostly so I can do my shopping quicker, a lot of times she goes with me tho. I have had a couple of times where I just really needed a break and some piece and quiet. I have a home daycare too so the house is rarely quiet. I feel like I hardly ever get anything done, so I do feel overwhelmed becasue I provide most of the care for my daughter and I have a business that I am running. Last weekend my me time was going to the dentist for a cleaning. I guess I am really stuck because I want me time but I can't leave my daughter for very long. Sometimes I feel like a bad mom just because of stupid things that happen, I call them my mother of the year moments. Like when she fell out of bed last night and I didn't hear her, she came in and woke me up I felt horrible. Or when I bump her head on the car when I am putting her in her seat, I have done this pleantly of times but I still manage to hit her head, I don't have to worry about this much anymore as she get in by herself more. I think that we are programed to feel like a bad mom from time to time it keeps us trying our hardest for them.
@rjkmrr (172)
• India
29 Jul 10
No! no way,I haven't done such thing till now. We can leave our child with somebody but not with this notion. I will never do that to my children, as my mom had never done to me.
@pirate451 (152)
• India
29 Jul 10
I do feel like a bad mom because I didn't get a time to take care my child for a hold day which I have to go office and do my work and I can't give what they want in their time.I have to leave my child with my family and they take care of my child.Child don't what how ask and hope they want lot of thing in their mind and that we don't know.So think myself I am bad mom to my child.Some time I can't feet properly to my baby because I am let to go office and I will be in hurry.I am totally bad mom for my child.Do you suffer as same like me or not?