Bad mum

[clairemum22]

Does anybody else ever feel like a bad mum?
I try to do times tables homework with dd and she gets really fed up- how do you make it fun?
I get cross when they spill things/accidents happen.
I shout too much.
How do you have a fun, friendly relationship with your dc's?
The house is messy, I'm rubbish at imaginative play..
Some parents seem so great, so calm, have such a good relationship with their dc - how do I do this?!

Hi Claire. You only you live with yourself and your own children. It's very easy for people to make out things are perfect but you don't know what's going on behind closed doors.
One example I made learning fun by taking my d.d to the museums and the parks where we would count the ducks ect. and talk about where they lived ect. and we would sing animals songs. I too would take some art materials and we we would draw what we had seen and write about our day. I would also do minibeast hunts with her and ask her what her favorite insect was and I would encourage her to hold the creatures. Again singing songs about insey winsey spider., but I am nowhere near a perfect mum nor is my child a perfect child. We're human.
We have all been there when we have heard parents say things that we may believe at the time but we look back and it's bull shit.

I once heard a mum say "Now my kids are brilliant. They hardly ever fight. I mean I will admit they did have a little fight the other day but that was only who had the most brocolli, honest. Stupid bitch. What kids fight over brocolli. Chocolate yes.
There is no perfect mum .