Mom's Viral Post Sums Up Why Parenting Used To Be Easier

An Australian mom’s viral Facebook post is highlighting the immense pressure parents face today. On Wednesday, blogger Constance Hall posted a photo of herself having fun with one of her children. In the caption, she shared a powerful message about the cost of trying to keep up with the demands of society. “What happens when we put too much pressure on mothers?” she asked.  Hall recalled that after becoming a mother, she once asked her father how her grandmother managed to raise 11 children. “My dad responded that she wasn’t given half the pressures I was,” she wrote. “She didn’t have to go to the bank, the supermarket everyday, she wasn’t expected to look a million bucks straight after birth and she never put pressure on her kids to have reached all of their milestones by the age of 3 weeks, have the house clean and own a thermomix,” she added. “She just hung out with her kids and enjoyed them.” As a result of this pressure to keep up with the many demands of modern parenting, Hall believes she and other parents aren’t able to be truly present for their children. Instead, she said, they have to fixate on reaching perfection. “To go to the gym, answer that email, pay that bill, cook that organic kale, blend it, get it into a patty so no one knows it’s kale, get to the doctors....” she wrote. “The washing! Petrol in the car.... colour your goddam grays! Make the ...
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