Mom Guilt

 I started this post nearly a year ago, in May 2015. It still seems eerily relevant.

Some things that I will someday regret about my parenting, in no particular order:

1. When my kids asked me to take them swimming, I said no simply because I hadn't shaved my legs recently.
2. Yelling.
3. Watching my kids play instead of playing with them.
4. Staying up for an extra hour of "me" time - meaning I was crabby with the kids all the next day.
5. Not closing my screen and looking them in the eye when they were talking to me.
6. Not closing my screen the instant they walked in the door from school, no matter how much that email message seemed to call to me.
7. Turning my disappointment in myself into anger at them. ("Mom, have you done (whatever) yet?" "NO! Quit nagging me! I can't do everything immediately!")
8. Getting angry with a child who was crying over "nothing" when they were really crying over something - just something different than the apparent thing (usually being tired, hungry, or scared).

Now that it is one year later, I thought about adding to the list, but this seems to sum it up pretty well. I feel guilty about my parenting due to my tendency to be: selfish and/or short-tempered. I guess that should sum up guilt in many other venues as well.