Mum’s the Word: 3 Ways to End Mom on Mom Crime
Friday, May 08, 2015
Ultimately every mother does what she thinks is best 
We continue to “facebook” our frustrations about mothers not controlling their kids at the mall. Meanwhile, I still find myself judging the crunchy mothers who name their daughters “Starlight” and dress them up in outfits that even Bjork would refuse to wear.
Despite the fact that we have a holiday dedicated to our mothers, they’re still one of the most criticized groups of people in our society. Shockingly, the people who do the most criticizing of mothers are in fact…other mothers.
I’m sure many of you saw the viral video of a mother disciplining her son during the news coverage in Baltimore. Whether positive or negative, people had an opinion about both the video itself and the mother’s form of discipline.
I even posted a status about the incident on my Facebook where I critiqued both the Media’s agenda and the reaction of viewers. However, like most posts on social media, words were misinterpreted, and my critique on the Media and society morphed into a critique on the mother herself.
The resulting slew of comments that I received lead me to think about our habit of being overly critical and committing “mom on mom” crime.
In the recent opinion piece published by The New York Times, Ylonda Gault Caviness examined the bicker wars about what is and isn’t the right way to raise children. In the end, she falls back on her common sense and the truth that ultimately every mother does what she thinks is best (aka she has honorable intentions).
“That doesn’t mean I’m beyond reproach. It only means I trust myself. I know how, as Mama might say, to make a dollar out of 15 cents...I know I don’t have to be a baby whisperer, toddler whisperer or anything other than my natural self to understand their needs. I usually know how to keep it together. When all else fails, I know how to go someplace and sit down,” wrote Caviness.
This introspective examination of her own behavior as a mother is probably what every mother should be doing.
However, since it’s easy to get distracted from our self- improvement projects when we read about a celebrity writing “Fresh” on their kid’s birth certificate…here are few things for us to remember before judging another mother.
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