The Perfect Mother Test

POST: Karen Joy outlined this Perfect Womanhood Model on
a thread about Avoiding Homeschool Burnout, an ideal
that leads to burnout and depression:

    I think that often, we as women, look at collective
    Womanhood out there, and we piece together this
    Ideal Woman that we just will never measure up to:
    This woman is a size 4, this woman is always on time
    with her six kids, this woman has perfectly behaved
    children, this woman's kids are advanced for their
    age, this woman has the perfect husband, this woman
    gets a whole IG done in one year (or less!), this
    woman's house is always totally clean and her
    laundry and ironing never falls behind, this woman's
    garden is lovely.... and on and on and on... And
    it's easy to look at that fictional Ideal Woman and
    get discouraged about our own seeming failures.

So . . . are you these things? I'll add one to make the
Every Woman a Perfect 10. Give yourself ONE POINT if you
ARE and a ZERO if you are not and total your score:

1. This woman is a size 4.
2. This woman is always on time with her (X) kids.
3. This woman has perfectly behaved children.
4. This woman's kids are advanced for their age.
5. This woman gets a whole IG done in one year (or
less!).
6. This woman's house is always totally clean.
7. This woman never falls behind in her laundry and
ironing (she irons!?).
8. This woman's garden is lovely.
9. This woman has the perfect husband.
10.This woman never yells at her children (or anyone
else), nor uses Yiddish.

This isn't meant to make you feel badly. It is meant to
help you know that you are probably average, which means
you're a normal sinner trying to be holy, but are
totally aware you are saved by grace.

You don't have to post your meager score unless it
amuses you to do so.

--RCGwho?

POST: I got a zero, but just because the wrong things
were asked.

The things I might get a point for . . .

1. This woman is confident and okay with herself no
matter what her size.
2. This woman owns a clock and looks at it once in a
while.
3. This woman understands that kids don't always behave
properly.
4. This woman understands that all kids are different
and encourages them in their strengths.
5. This woman can look at her kids and know that today
is a good day to forget about the IG and do something
that will shock the socks off the kiddos.
6. This woman knows that the stuff that needs done today
can wait till tomorrow (within reason of course).
7. This woman teaches her children to do their own
laundry when they are tall enough to turn the dials.
8. This woman knows that she ain’t got what it takes to
keep up a garden and names her pets after flowers.
9. This woman loves her husband, and is thankful he
loves her 'cause she ain’t perfect.
10. This woman tells her children she's sorry when she
blows it and they know she loves them even when she
isn't showing it.

--on high places

POST: I love your list! Thanks for the pick-me-up to
start my day! I will walk around today thinking, "I'm a
10. I'm a 10."

--Patti in the Son

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Posted by writmm

Thanks for stopping by my blog! And thanks for this uplifting post! I am a 10:) Yahoo!

Posted by Homeschooling6

Does a 9 count ;) I'm still trying to love my new size that my beautiful children have given me ;o)
Thanks for posting it.
Linda<><