Meet the "BAD" mother!

Hi everyone - it's so good to meet you! I was just told yesterday that I am a bad mother. If only I would have been called "mean" - "mean" mother I could have handled - "mean" mother I know - my mom was a "mean" mother. I'm always mean (or so my kids think) & proud of it - but "bad". Well, that was a new one for me. Now, you tell me, is this really the face of a bad mother? I don't think so. When I think of a "bad" mother, I think of drug addict, criminal, someone who abuses her children - physically or verbally, someone who puts her kids in someone else's care all day, everyday so she can go to the spa or go shopping, someone who neglects her children & doesn't take care of their basic needs, someone who lets her kids do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it, however they want to do it, just to keep them quiet & out of her hair, etc., etc. Do I do any of these things - NO! Bad mother - I think NOT.

So what earned me this dubious title, you may ask. What crime did I commit? What cruel behavior did I display? Well, I was caught teaching my daughter about rules & consequences - about how if you don't follow certain rules, certain consequences follow - usually unpleasant ones. She did not like this & therefore deemed me a bad mother. Funny - I thought that meant I was being a good mother. This is not the first time I have taught my daughter this, but for some reason, this time, I was BAD!

Well, if that means bad, then I will continue to be bad. Here's to all the other "bad" mother's I know. You're out there & I say, good for you! Now - this "bad" mother has to go and make some brownies for her daughter (yes, the very same daughter who called her mother bad) to take to school tomorrow to share with her class. Good night, bad mamas!