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We spoke to 18 guilt-ridden mums who tell us about the daily guilt trips they go on and all the things they feel bad about when it comes to their kids.they look at me with their big googly eyes which can dramatically well-up on demand, and I feel like the master abandoner. In addition to the fear that I’m neglecting them, I start getting paranoid about something happening when I’m not there – like if they get a bump or a graze – and I’ll never know the extent of the pain they’ve endured.
“Sometimes I need a break so bad that I literally put my toddler in her highchair, prop the iPad in front of her and click on the first video I see that has ‘Kid’s songs’ and ‘1-hour’ in the title. She sits there watching it completely hypnotized and I sit on the couch looking at her, sipping on my coffee, just basking in my guilt.
“I don’t have any qualms about whether I’m a good mum or not; I know that I am, but sometimes I feel that I could somehow be doing more, or that I should try to go that extra mile. For instance, for a recent school mother-daughter event, we shopped for a dress and accessories and had a lovely time.
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