Have you ever told your preschool child to clean a messy room? If your kids are like my child was at that age, you often end up hearing “I don’t know how!” “It’s too hard.” “I tried (said in a room that looks no different from before it was “cleaned”.)
As I glance through social media, I often hear a lot of buzz about “mommy shaming”. Usually, it seems to be in the context of “How dare you try to tell me how to parent my child! Who do you think you are?” “It’s too hard/unrealistic to parent like that.” “I’m trying my best, so leave me alone.” While I am sure some bloggers are pretentious or condescending, I think focusing on the concept of mommy shaming distracts us from the real battle in parenting.
In the past, I really haven’t dealt with reviewing movies other than referring parents to the website 
Want to feel badly about your mothering skills? Attend a homeschooling conference. I felt like I was a fairly decent mother until I met a few of those uber moms. They homeschooled multiple children all while sewing their family’s clothes, running a farm and a side internet business and not only baked their own bread, but ground the flour to make the bread. Seriously?! There was no way I could do half of that and I was only homeschooling one child.
Have you ever noticed the best selling books for kids on sites like Amazon? Most have bright cheerful covers. The titles often promise there will be humor on the pages inside. Then take a look the next time you are in a bookstore at best selling books for teens and young adults. Suddenly, the books are filled with stories of last survivors, people fighting for their lives, vampires and other “dark” tales. Even the covers look depressing, with dark colors and dramatic drawings.
At some point Christianity became about planting seeds. (Yes, I know there’s a verse about that, but if you recall there was also a mention of someone watering.) Suddenly, Christians were running around like Johnny Appleseed dropping little spiritual statements everywhere. The belief seems to be we have no responsibility for anything much deeper than that because it wouldn’t be seed planting.