Today was interesting as many mothers who I am not friends with on social media, and therefore have no idea about my ongoing journal, expressed to me their feelings of sadness over their children aging. One person was talking about their child who was starting Kindergarten, another about their child who was a freshman in college, another about their child turning 11 and hitting puberty. It seems that I am not the only one who is struggling with my children aging.
Most people who read this probably do not know this fact about me but I am obsessed with the cartoon Bluey. It is 100% pure brilliance and if you have not seen it, you need to stop right now and go watch a few episodes. Today I watched an episode called “Mum School,” where Bluey did not want to take a bath and instead of bathing, pretended to be a mother to a group of balloons. Bluey’s mother, Chili, was assigned the task of running “mom school” and grading Bluey on how well she did at pretending to be a mom. At the end of the episode, when Bluey could not get one of the balloons to cooperate, she said to her mother, I probably did not pass, and Bluey’s mother brilliantly responded, “that’s okay, we all fail mum school sometimes.” This is what I love about Bluey, I am simultaneously undone and comforted by the sentiment and I feel totally seen.
To my fellow parents: though we will fail, what really matters is that we do love.
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