Your Mom Guilt Needs A Summer Break Too

I feel the need to validate the experience of all the mamas out there feeling intense amounts of Summer mom guilt.

I’m one of you. I am you.

Summer started two weeks ago and my kids have already spent eleventy billion hours on screens.

I am recovering from Covid, my husband had it before me, and my daughter had it before him. From DAY ONE of Summer break we’ve had someone in our house sick with this nasty virus.

My boys have stayed well (#blessed) but tbh, the amount of mom guilt I’ve felt as they’ve had to entertain themselves for literal hours of the day with screens instead of friends, or parents, or the pool we usually go to daily is ridiculous.

I’ve been laying in bed for five days with a raging fever feeling mom guilt, y’all.

Nope, I’m not new to parenting. I’m a veteran. I know how to have self love and give myself grace. I know how to talk myself down from spiraling into thoughts of “You’re a horrible mother.”
But, why — W H Y is mom guilt so fierce in my heart, mind, and soul?

Wasn’t I raised in the 80’s and 90’s when mom guilt didn’t seem to affect our parents at all?

I have tried for years to let the mom guilt go. I played Super Mario Bros. 3 in the…