Written by Editorial Team
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
— Tina Fey
The lines above truly capture the essence of motherhood, don’t they? Motherhood is a joyous, rich and rewarding experience in itself, but it also brings about its own fair shares of anger, frustrations, squabbles and the like. Ask any mom whether she is happy, and the spontaneous answer will be a ‘yes’. Ask them to go into some details and most moms will start telling you about how difficult it is to parent a child between other responsibilities, and the daily struggles that they have with kids. And this is where the importance of being happy beyond the smile comes up.
Psychologists who have researched on the ‘happiness’ aspect in a mother’s life say that when moms say that they are ‘happy’, they are referring to only some selective moments from their parenting experience. These moments generally comprise of reading bed time stories, bathing times, playing together etc. which are enjoyable moments. But parenting is far more than this! Hours trying to get a child dressed or put to sleep, wiping noses and changing diapers, packing lunches and cleaning messes can make motherhood stressful and frustrating. This makes women slip into this stage of ‘unhappiness’ where they start yelling at kids, squabbling with the spouse and eventually may even get depressed. But you know that you do need to be a happier person, and not just a happy mom. In the midst of so much chaos, we bring some definite ways which can make you a ‘Happy Mom’ and not an ‘Angry Mom’.
Kids do bring joy, but they also bring exhaustion, frustration and sometimes a lot of despair. Though the intensity of joy outweighs the hard work mothers put in, yet there are times when you want to be happy by yourself. And here is how to go about it.
These simple steps are the ones in the right direction, and they actually work. The more you engage yourself in positive and constructive thinking, the more you will realize that happiness is under your own control, and you are simply not aware of it.
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