Hi everyone! Welcome to the MUMS world! I am Priscilla, a working mother trying to balance between my family and work. WEll, in this blog you will get to know more about working mothers with my views and my friends’ views. Somemore…… in my blog I would not say working mothers as ordinary working mothers. I would call them the …… SUPERMUMS! Yup, like me! In this blog, YOU WILL GET TO SEE AMAZING THINGS! Just wait and see!!!
What does it meant be “Supermum”?
WEll, very simple. Supermum is a word to describe working mothers that you always seen on the streets anywhere even in the wet market! Supermums are the ones that looks stressful as they have to ‘balance’ between their work and family. It is really a tough life for them. They have many challenges and struggles in their life. For example, if the ’supermum’ children needed her badly, the ’supermum’ would need to quit her job and look after her children. This resulted in making a sacrifice for her children. Family is always the best to them. WEll, but some other ’supermum’ do not think that way. It is up to their opinion. :) To me, these supermums are always emotional strong in my eyes. Don’t worry if you do not fully understand the term of ’supermum’ yet. As you scroll down, you would know more about supermums. Enjoy! (Check this cartoon image!)
She – The ‘Supermum’
You can see them on the streets, wet markets, shopping centre, shops and even the toilet! Who exactly are they? WEll, they are the amazing SUPERMUMS! (Like me! :)) Supermums are the best mums in their childrens’ eyes and also a workaholic worker. They both love their family and work very much. Think about this sentence. Aha! Here comes the problem, can they do both things at one time? There will be lots of challenges here and there including some sacrifices. What are the struggles then? We shall see.
“Woa! There is way too many struggles for me! Sometimes my children would be unhappy with me for not coming home early. It hurts me to see their sulking face. In the end, I have to come back early from work and I can sense that my boss seems bery angry with me. I don’t want to lose my job either!” says Estella, a 34 year old working mother.
“Too much to handle! I find it hard to ’balance’ between my family and work. I am holding a high position in my work place and sometimes during meetings, my daughter would call me just to hear my voice before she sleeps. Whenever the phone rings, my boss seems very frustrated with me. At the same time, I have to talk sweetly to my daughter so that she could sleep. I don’t want to shout at her. I am afraid of losing my job and even afraid that my daughter won’t like me if I shout at her. I feel very pressurised and I know myself. My tolerance level is very low. All these while, I am just trying to control my anger but not screaming at my daughter!” says Melissa, a 32 year old working mother.
You can see them on the streets, wet markets, shopping centre, shops and even the toilet! Who exactly are they? WEll, they are the amazing SUPERMUMS! (Like me! :)) Supermums are the best mums in their childrens’ eyes and also a workaholic worker. They both love their family and work very much. Think about this sentence. Aha! Here comes the problem, can they do both things at one time? There will be lots of challenges here and there including some sacrifices. What are the struggles then? We shall see.
“Woa! There is way too many struggles for me! Sometimes my children would be unhappy with me for not coming home early. It hurts me to see their sulking face. In the end, I have to come back early from work and I can sense that my boss seems bery angry with me. I don’t want to lose my job either!” says Estella, a 34 year old working mother.
“Too much to handle! I find it hard to ’balance’ between my family and work. I am holding a high position in my work place and sometimes during meetings, my daughter would call me just to hear my voice before she sleeps. Whenever the phone rings, my boss seems very frustrated with me. At the same time, I have to talk sweetly to my daughter so that she could sleep. I don’t want to shout at her. I am afraid of losing my job and even afraid that my daughter won’t like me if I shout at her. I feel very pressurised and I know myself. My tolerance level is very low. All these while, I am just trying to control my anger but not screaming at my daughter!” says Melissa, a 32 year old working mother.
From these two ’supermums’, we can see that they are very stressed out. If you would want to know more, check out at the page of “WOMAN TO WOMAN TALK”, LATER!
Now, question is what is the common struggles of a ’supermum’? Take a look at these people’s views.
“I think the most problem lies between us is about going home early from work to see our children. I have got the same problem too and even my friends! My two toddlers is always very anxious about seeing me and if they don’t see me they would cry. It is very distrubing! As for the older kids like about 11 of age, if they don’t see their mothers they will start thinking, ‘Does mum even love me? Why doesn’t she come back home and see me? Mum hardly have any time to talk to me and I could only see her during the weekends. That proves it, she is avoiding me!’ These are mostly what my friends told me when their child started to ’self-abuse’ themselves.” says Estella.
“I think the most common ones are the working mothers’ children started to become very emotional and sensitive due to no much ‘mothers’ care’. I have read in the newspapers that many of the kids went counselling as they have wild thoughts in their mind about not seeing their mother everyday. They would be thinking, ‘Why mummy come back home so late? She doesn’t love me anymore. Did she hate me? I feel so sad! Mummy hates me!’ Their mothers ended up coming back home very late due to some work problems and they could only see them during the weekends. I think the children should be more considerate to their mothers. Sadly speaking, I feel very sad for the mums, they must have under lots of pressure.” says Ann, a 38 year old working mother.
As you can see, different people have different views including me. Those problems could be considered as the “Top 10 Problems of Supermums“
. What are the rest of the problems then? Let’s see.
“Okay. This problem has pondered over me for very long. everytime I come back home, housechores is not done! I am so angry! I don’t want to hire a maid because many cases have reported about maids abusing children, it has freak me out! I just have to continue the housechores and by the time I went to bed about 12 midnight and I have to wake up at 5am again! I have asked my husband about him doing the housechores, off course you all know he would disagree and would always say,’Then, hire a maid!’ That made me even more angry!” says Estella.
“For me, I think it is something about the housechores. My family is living in a semi-detached house and off course I could not be doing the housework all alone. So I have thought about hiring a maid although many cases about maids abusing chidren have been up many times. I have told my daughter that whenever the maid abuse her, she should tell me immediatly despite the threat by the maid. I will also ’sack’ the maid if my daughter tells me that this maid is no good. I believe my daughter.” says Melissa.
No matter how many of the challenges, I believe the strong ’supermum’ could handle it. There would always be problems coming along in their life and just hope that they could overcome it. Bless the ’supermums’!
Comics: enjoy!
“For me, I think it is something about the housechores. My family is living in a semi-detached house and off course I could not be doing the housework all alone. So I have thought about hiring a maid although many cases about maids abusing chidren have been up many times. I have told my daughter that whenever the maid abuse her, she should tell me immediatly despite the threat by the maid. I will also ’sack’ the maid if my daughter tells me that this maid is no good. I believe my daughter.” says Melissa.
Comics: enjoy!
