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At times being a mum can feel like playing grown ups. I’m sometimes transported to the make believe of my childhood days except this time the baby isn’t plastic and called Tiny Tears and I can’t put her down before I go and watch Willow The Whisp.
As a girl playing mummies at four no one judged how I held Tiny Tears or whether she was wearing the right clothes, or what food I was feeding her. To be fair social services would have intervened if they did, I often held her by a leg whilst she was naked and I fed her my left over Penguin biscuit !
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As a girl playing mummies at four no one judged how I held Tiny Tears or whether she was wearing the right clothes, or what food I was feeding her. To be fair social services would have intervened if they did, I often held her by a leg whilst she was naked and I fed her my left over Penguin biscuit !
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four I was allowed to love my doll unashamedly, whole heartedly and without any judgement. I didn’t have to worry that I was talking about my doll too much or too little and if I was over sharing my proud mum moments.
Now in my 30’s and a mum I have a constant nagging feeling that just lingers that I’m just not doing it right. My child is well loved, couldn’t ask for more and very happy but the mummy guilt lingers. I feel judged if I openly love them too much deemed ”obsessed ” and also judged if I show no affection deemed ”cold and distant.”
Now in my 30’s and a mum I have a constant nagging feeling that just lingers that I’m just not doing it right. My child is well loved, couldn’t ask for more and very happy but the mummy guilt lingers. I feel judged if I openly love them too much deemed ”obsessed ” and also judged if I show no affection deemed ”cold and distant.”
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Life is full of quandaries, to hover at soft play or to watch from the sidelines? To cook every recipe from Annabel Karmel for the first two years of their life or over look the chicken nugget from the yellow arches entering their mouth!
As mothers we are our own worst enemy a lot of our choices on motherhood are influenced by those around us and how we may be perceived. However you know you and your child best, so I say helicopter, attachment, slummy or yummy I’ve been all four at various stages and either way if your own real life Tiny Tears has a
As mothers we are our own worst enemy a lot of our choices on motherhood are influenced by those around us and how we may be perceived. However you know you and your child best, so I say helicopter, attachment, slummy or yummy I’ve been all four at various stages and either way if your own real life Tiny Tears has a
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smile on their face then you are doing a great job.
Just remember don’t hold your own real life baby naked by it’s leg whilst feeding them yesterday’s left over penguin biscuit this is for 1980s plastic dolls only.
Just remember don’t hold your own real life baby naked by it’s leg whilst feeding them yesterday’s left over penguin biscuit this is for 1980s plastic dolls only.
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