Moments of Madness

You know that feeling you get when the kids are screaming, dinner's burning and you're still waiting for little one's milk to cool down? The moment you think 'How many minutes until my other half gets home', 'make it STOP' and last but not least 'what have I done'. This is the moment many parents feel unable to open up about.

This is a Moment of Madness.

For some reason, this moment makes us feel guilty. It can even make us feel as though we are failures as parents. However, it's important to remember that we are only human, everyday stresses take their tole on us and we don't all have unlimited resources that we can rely on when help is needed. It's normal to feel like this and here is why...

Because not all of us have that helpful person to go back to - some of us stick it out on our own, without support from a partner of family network. Maybe not even support from friends. At times, we have all experienced this. Possibly there was a day when you had next to no sleep the night before and your mini-me simply could not be consoled. Perhaps there was a time when your own child was screaming out in public 'she's hurting me!' when you simply held her hand to cross the road and you stared fondly at other parent's kids, playing nicely in the nearby park. All of these situations are stressful and cannot be avoided, however hard we try to edge around them. It happens to all of us, whether we like it or not. There are many reasons that life gets ontop of us. You know what they say about a box of chocolates. . .

The truth is this Moment happens to everyone, every day. It is simply not possible to stay at 100%, at
the top of your game all the time! As we said before, we are only human, and whether or not you feel you 'deserve' to have a little empathy for yourself, you are all entitled to it.