Stop slagging off your sister!

The mum-o-sphere is full of opinions, rants and let’s face it some downright nasty slagging off. Lisa Pearson, who blogs at The Mummy Whisperer, thinks it is time for this to stop. Read about her idea to get mums to respect each other and stand in each other’s shoes. 

Being a mum – it’s not the most highly thought of role in our society at the moment is it? We appear to struggle to be treated with respect and are often considered an annoyance that creates expensive children. Meanwhile the media and internet are full of mums having a go at each other for their different opinions. Somehow men appear to be able to use the “old boys network” to succeed whilst also happily competing against each other. But women see a lack of power and are all clamouring for it or to be seen as the “right ones”.

It’s time for this to change. In fact, it’s crucial that this changes because mums are incredibly important to our society. We are where everything starts with the family. Strengthen us, you strengthen the family and grow strong kids, who will then create a stronger society. Before we can get the rest of society to take us more seriously, we really need to sort ourselves out as a community and stop sticking the knife in. Debate is useful; we don’t want to become Stepford wives. However, having public slanging matches and criticising each other for our mothering, parenting, working or relationship skills is going to get us nowhere. It’s time to think twice before reacting to another mum and show understanding for their situation by trying to stand in their shoes for a moment.

So I’ve come up with a plan. Step one is the mum-blogging community and we need a name for the campaign. Currently ‘Mums Stand Together’ is very popular, with a badge showing all those shoes that we could try standing in. What do you think? Are you ready to start creating a change?

Vote!

Lisa Pearson–Mummy Whisperer

Lisa Pearson is a 42-year-old mum of two kids, who works part-time as ‘The Mummy Whisperer’ helping Mums feel more contented. She won a MADs award for her blog in 2011, and published her book “Six Weeks To A Sparkling You And Enjoying Being A Mum” to the Kindle. Lisa feels that we often start at the “wrong” place with parenting techniques, teaching mums to rely on “gurus” to “fix” the kids, rather strengthening the Mum so they can use their own innate knowledge of the family. She is full of unusual but effective ways of dealing with bullying!

Photo credit: wouterkersbergen

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