Working mothers..ever Feel Like.......

OH YES! My daughter is 2 1/2 and I STILL feel guilt very often that I'm working and she's in preschool. She has THRIVED since being in school and loves it, but I still have that guilt. In fact, just yesterday, I was watching her on her preschool's webcams and almost started to cry. They were singing some song and she was doing the hand movements to the song... It nearly killed me.

So, yes, I think all working mothers feel some level of guilt/inadequacy for being away from our kids for any period of time. However, I know that my daughter is well cared-for, is learning and growing and I'm a more content person doing the work that I love.

I understand what your going through. My daughter is 8 months old and I just went back to work about a month ago. I miss my baby being away for most of the day. There a lot of working mothers feeling the same way. I also just relocated here from TX so I don't know anyone either. Hang in there, it will get better. You can send me a personal message if you want to chat.

I too often feel this way. We just relocated up here from TX. I am too a single mom of one. He is six and the light of my life. I drop him off at daycare to catch the bus like 1/2 hr. before the bus even gets there, then pick him up at 6 in the evening. He is now in first grade, but even when he was an infant I had to leave him there at the daycare all day long. Even to have him at 1 calling the daycare worker mommy...man was that hard to deal with. But sometimes we have circumstances that don't allow for anything else. I am sure, just as I do, we spend all the time we have outside of work tending to them and making sure we more than compensate for that time we missed. And no we can't just get it back, but I have come to the conclusion as much as I would like to be one of those who give up and live on the govt. or sponge off my family there is an important lesson in it for our children in the long run. They will see how hard we worked and how much we love them to give them the life they do have. Every day I tell myself that I am doing it for us! I am getting up taking him to daycare and standing strong through the whole thing. I work hard and show him that any obsticle is overcomeable and in the end we are able to live a better life together. I don't want him to see someone who when presented with an obsticle they fall over even alittle and give up because it's the easy way. I hope this helps and is encouraging. If you need to talk email me! I often wonder how I can make it better and well, I know some day I will have instilled in my son the good things and so when he grows up he will know that I did in the mean time I chairish the days I have off and the time I spend with him before bed. Good luck! :)

I think we all feel that way- especially all of us single moms out there. I feel inadequate because I have to rely on someone else to take care of basic needs of my kids frequently. It's okay.