A REAL MOM IS ONE WHO…


  • Counts the number of sprinkles on each kid’s cupcake to make sure they are equal.
  • Wants to take out a contract on the kid who broke her child’s favorite toy and made him/her cry.
  • Has time to shave just one leg at a time.
  • Hides in the bathroom whenever she feels to be alone
  • Her child throws up and she catches the same.
  • Sees someone else’s kid throwing up at a party and she keeps eating.
  • Considers finger paint to be a controlled substance.
  • Mastered the art of placing food on a plate without anything touching.
  • Her child insists her to read “Once upon a Potty” out loud in the lobby of the doctor’s office and she does it.
  • She hires a baby sitter because she hasn’t been out with her husband in ages, then she spends half the night talking about and checking on the kids.
  • Hopes ketchup is a vegetable because it’s the only one her child likes eating.
  • Finds herself cutting her husband’s sandwiches into unusual shapes.
  • Fast-forwards through the scene when the hunter shoots Bambi’s mother.
  • Obsesses when her child clings to her upon parting during his first month at school, then she obsesses when he skips in without looking back.
  • Cannot bear to give away baby clothes–it’s so final.
  • Hears her mother’s voice coming out of her mouth when she says “Not in your good clothes.”
  • Stops criticizing the way her mother raised her.
  • Reads that the average-five-year old asks 437 questions a day and feels proud that her kid is “above average.”
  • As she clings to the high moral ground on toy weapons, her child chews his toast into the shape of a gun.
  • Donates to charities in the hope that her child would not get that disease.
  • Uses her own saliva to clean her child’s face.
  • Says at least once a day, “I’m not cut out for this job”, but she knows she would not trade it for anything.