It makes sense why I feel less guilty about not working and staying home with children!

once again… THANKS!

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I loved answering the comments! And because most were directed at me in terms of welcoming, I thought it best. That it helped you was just gravy. I’m so happy to be among the excellent sites you have selected. I wa wondering there for a while whether I should make mine into more of a niche blog. But then I thought, Nawwww!

I do agree guilt decreases with age. The older I get the less guilt I feel.

But it also depends on our choices. If I were to blow money when money is tight, or have no regard for others feelings, then I’m creating my own guilt by my choices.

If we think responsibly, we can eliminate a lot of guilt.

BTW: Thank you for the superb job you did answering all of the comments on your introductory post. You’re awesome. My day was packed with so much of life, I had little time for my blog.

You saved my day. Thanks again!

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That’s really sad about the woman who let the guilt ruin her literally. I find as a pediatrician I really feel a lot of guilt over my patients particularly the ones who have died. I play over and over what I could have done. It’s why I pray a lot. I have learned that my role is to do the best I can and sometimes that just means being there for the family when a child dies. Most times there is nothing I could have done differently. But the guilt pushes me to be diligent every day with every patient. I give my phone number to my patients and I follow ups a lot. It’s the only way I can sleep at night.

Chris- You do what you love and that’s a great gift you can teach your children.

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Audubon- You made it though the front door this time. Thanks for visiting.

Alesia- We do just want to get it right huh? It pains me to think that no matter what I do she will grow up and perseverate over a moment and I’ll probably never even remember that moment. That’s why we have to get good at saying I’m sorry.

Lisa-Practice make perfect. Maybe guilt will move us to where we should be and the other stuff we can just let go.

Ann at One Bag Nation-Welcome. You’re right we don’t want to just be automatons and never expressing anything. One thing I hope my kids realize is that we all makes mistakes- no matter how old you are!

But too much guilt can be really damaging – I know people who have been eaten up with guilt about things they did many years earlier. I even know of one woman who committed suicide after making herself ill with guilt over something that happened decades earlier which really wasn’t her fault. Very sad.

However . . . even mommies are human and I think kids need to understand that we have strong emotions too sometimes; we can get angry but we still love them, and we can “try again” or “start over” as we sometimes say in our house.

I had a terrible Mommy Guilt episode a couple of weeks ago. I blogged about it here: I forgot and I’m sorry

I look forward to looking around and reading more here soon!

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