Are Two Year Olds Actually Terrible, Or Is It Just Toxic Mommy Culture?
‘You know it when you see it’ is probably how most of us would define toxic mommy culture. She’s the ‘Karen’ of the mom world and is generally found wearing a t-shirt that reads “Mama needs a drink.” But what if I told you there’s a subtler aspect to this toxic culture we all have unknowingly participated in?
I’ll be the first to tell you, being a mom is hard work. It’s dirty, it’s exhausting, it pushes us to our mental, physical, and emotional boundaries, and then asks us to push further. It makes us keenly aware, in a very personal way, of all our shortcomings. But is taking the blame of our human limitations and placing it onto the natural development of our children really the answer to these growing pains? Is calling it “the terrible twos” and then calling them a “threenager” (managing to insult not just one but two sensitive developmental periods at the same time) really a perspective we want to perpetuate?