{"id":4486,"date":"2021-12-27T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"when-my-children-were-younger-and-i-was-going-to-baby-classes-i-remember-thinking-that-everyone-there-had-their-shit-together-and-i-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/when-my-children-were-younger-and-i-was-going-to-baby-classes-i-remember-thinking-that-everyone-there-had-their-shit-together-and-i-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"When my children were younger and I was going to baby classes, I remember thinking that everyone there had their shit together and I didn\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt too embarrassed to admit that I wasn\u2019t doing messy play, that I didn\u2019t have an immaculate home and that some days, I was struggling to put a brush through my hair because I was surrounded with women who looked amazing, were smiling and exuded confidence.<\/p>\n<p>So I smiled, and pretended that I had got this parenting lark nailed.<\/p>\n<p>I wore a mask because I couldn\u2019t show the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The things is that they were also wearing a mask. I didn\u2019t know it at the time, but having worked with hundred of mums in the last ten years, I know that most mums are feeling the same as I was \u2013 thinking that they are the only ones who aren\u2019t perfect while everyone around them is.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the more mums are real and honest, the more we will all feel able to show our true selves without fear of shame or judgement.<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s be part of the change and get rid of the masks and the idea of perfectionism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt too embarrassed to admit that I wasn\u2019t doing messy play, that I didn\u2019t have an immaculate home and that some days, I was struggling to put a brush through my hair because I was surrounded with women who looked amazing, were smiling and exuded confidence. So I smiled, and pretended that I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themumsmovement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}