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As a first time mother I am finding that I am dealing with guilt on a fairly regular basis.

Am I spending enough time with my daughter?

Is she learning enough from myself and my husband?

Are we doing enough activities to facilitate her development?

Am I right in going back to work and putting her into childcare?

Trying to get a few businesses off the ground plus juggling being a mother and a wife comes with its challenges. There are so many competing pressures from society to do everything and do it well, that we sometimes can feel like our efforts are not sufficient.

Speaking to other mothers, we all seem to face the same questions, the same issues. And the same guilty feelings. And I have to keep reminding myself that I’m not alone in facing these pressures. It’s how we deal with these pressures that is important. 

And I have decided that I am going to do things "my way". Not society’s way, or the way that other people may think that I should do things. But my way. And as long as I try my best to do what is right for my family, then that the is the best that I can do. I may crash and burn doing it, but at least I would have given it a shot under my rules. I am going to shut my ears to the naysayers and to the people who ’think’ they are giving me good advice and do what I believe in. This way I stay true to myself and what I believe in.

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