I often feel like I need to prove myself as a mom, especially as a first time mom. My guess is many moms have felt that way at one point or another. There are many times when I take comments personally that were probably not intended to be taken as a criticism.
Today the comment that got me thinking came from my husband’s grandmother at church. She made a comment about how it was too warm for my almost 8 month old daughter because we had put a heavy jacket on her. In the moment it made me feel like I had done something wrong. If I’m being honest, it wasn’t that I thought I had put my daughter in an uncomfortable situation — (I don’t think she was hot) — but that she was thinking that I was lacking in the mom department. (Gosh doesn’t she know how to dress her own child?!)