The worst thing that working mothers all over the world probably ever have to deal with is guilt.
Guilt for being in the middle of a make-or-break meeting, when your son’s kindergarten teacher calls up to say he fell off the monkey bars. ..
Guilt to find your daughter’s teacher’s note reminding you to buy the English textbook that she’s been bugging you about the night before, when you were too busy finishing your monthly report to your Head Office…
I’m wracked with guilt at this very moment, as I pack my bag for a business trip to Jakarta with my husband tomorrow.
It’s just for two nights…Lola will be sleeping with them…They’ll be all right…It’s just for two nights…
Guilt. No matter how many times you’ve been through it before, it never gets any easier.
Tags: guilt, Parenting, working mom
February 19th, 2008 at 05:09
You have my empathy.
Compensate by spending quality time with them which I know you do, when things in office are not so hectic.
February 19th, 2008 at 13:42
We all know how it feels like but sacrifices have got to be made and that does not make you a bad parent either. Many, women especially, are forced to choose between work and children. I want to be home sooner but at the same time I want to be taken seriously at work. To me, the difficult part is striking a BALANCE at it.
February 19th, 2008 at 15:25
awww, the picture says it all! makes me remember my own separation anxieties everytime my mom goes for work on saturdays, even when i know she’s back in the early evening.
take care though, and may you have a safe trip to jakarta and back home. no greater joy than being reunited. ;-)
November 23rd, 2009 at 18:24
Makes me appreciate that I work from home :) I don’t know how you do it…kudos to you supermama!