And At Christmas You Tell The Truth
Or, let's share some parenting highs and lows
Welcome to Baby Brain, a space where I - Charlotte, hi! - write about my life as a mother of three small children - Poppet (m, 4 years), Pickle (m, 2 years) and Peach (f, 2 months.) Those are not their real names. These are real stories from our days.
When I ran my own baby classes we would begin each session with a “sharing circle,” everyone giving one parenting high from their week, and one parenting low. The point was to encourage open discussion, and to help everyone relax enough to feel they didn’t need to sugarcoat their experience of motherhood, at least not for the next hour or so. There was laughter, there were tears, there were shared fears that we were ruining our children with every slight misstep made. It was beautiful, and now, just because it’s Christmas (and at Christmas you tell the truth) I want to bring it back - crying and everything. As class is currently out due to my having given birth a mere 11 weeks ago, I shall have to do my sharing here. Do feel free to reciprocate in the comments.
Here goes.