8 Mistakes Every Mom Makes!

Now I have only been a Mom for 18 months but I've already had a few little mistakes I've made.

1. Taking advice other parents have about your child seriously.
         - I hate this. As soon as you become a mother every other mother and their mother wants to tell you how to raise your child. When I was first a mom I remember feeling so overwhelmed when someone told me I was doing something wrong with my child. First of all it is my child so I don't see why any one else opinions matter. What we have to learn is everyone has a opinion on everything, you have to learn to take advice and say thank you. Just realize you don't have to take the advice and use it, but if you like the advice or want to try it GO FOR IT!

2.Wishing for your child to grow up.
           - This is really hard not to do! Us moms get excited to see all the fun milestones ahead of us and boom it happens and then we wish for them to stop growing so fast. I used to and still sometimes do this. Millie is now 18 months and I wish we could go back to the baby baby days. they were so much fun! So don't wish away your child's childhood.

3. Thinking you can buy nice things and them stay nice things.
               - Yeah... if you have a toddler you have learned this lesson already. Nice clothes... nah just kidding your child spit up and left an gnarly stain... Nice couch? No you left salsa on the coffee table and you looked away for only a minute and your couch is now covered in red salsa. Okay so we can't have nice things but we sure do have good memory's with our little ones.

4.Forgetting that you need alone time too.
          -Single mom or not we all have a ton on our plates. Sometimes someone will give you advice to find sometime for yourself. Haha right? No not at all. You really need to find a few minutes to yourself. It is so important so that you don't get lost in this new world of baby clothes and spit up and hours of crying.

5. Freaking out about every small bump or scratch.
          - Oh dear. Every time Millie would fall on her bottom when she first started to walk I would panic so bad that she would bust her head open. What mom doesn't worry about that? I sure don't want to spend an afternoon in the hospital! However a lot of times I realize I have just overreacted and possibly made a not dramatic moment...dramatic. Of course I will always have a moment of panic but I and many other mothers out there need to take a chill pill and realize that it will be okay!

6. Not knowing how to pick your battles-
          - Now only having a 18 month I am sure I have no idea what this really means but also I was once a teenage too. I feel being able to know how to pick your battles helps lower chances of extreme fights over nothing. Even now as a mom of a 18 month old I have learned that some things are just not worth fighting over. Like her eating. Okay my child loves food to a point that we constantly have little battles over how much she should eat. She always acts like she has not eaten for days even if she had a five course meal.... If that child runs out of food dear god duck and cover! I used to think she was eating to much but she always eats healthy foods so I have learned that if she is hungry let the girl eat some more strawberries. She will learn not to over eat soon or later.

7. Comparing your child to others children.
           - Don't you dare say you don't do this. I do. Its awful but its hard not to this because we want so badly to know that our child is growing and learning at the same rate as other children. And sometimes we want our child to be the best at everything. Wellllllll sorry to tell you this... That is honestly impossible. No one is perfect and we shouldn't be thinking our children aren't at the same rate as someone else's. Every child is unique and for the most part they all eventually get to the same place. Just because your child can't walk before your friends don't think anything is wrong with your baby! You have a perfect child who is going at his or her own pace.

8. No matter how many mistakes you make always learn to forgive yourself.
         -Being a mom is hard work. You have to know that no matter how many big or little mistakes you make that you are not alone! Forgive yourself and learn from your mistakes. Mistakes are just that....mistakes. They happen so you can learn to better yourself, to create the best of you there is. Never give up because of one silly mistake.