Mummy blogger Bunmi Latidan has made a name for herself for her totally relatable, honest observations on modern motherhood. And she’s totally on form with her latest oh-so-true post about the pressure we mums are put under these days, pressures that weren’t quite so prevalent 20 or 30 years ago.
“Being a modern parent is terrible,” Bunmi says wryly in the pretty spot-on Facebook post. “I'd give my left kneecap to have parented in the 70s or 80s when all you had to do to be considered a good mom is to remember to wind down the windows when you smoke in the car.”
She was compelled to write the post after a day spent ‘vitamin shopping’ – because, she says, “in 2016, you don't really love your kids if you're not a paranoid mess about their physical well-being and willing to spend a small fortune on dye-free toothpaste made in the woods that tastes like elderberry and privilege.”
Bunmi’s post strikes a chord, because sure, while all mums want their kids to be healthy and happy, it begs the question: are we going a bit over the top? What was so wrong with how we were reared?
“Do you know what vitamins I had growing up?” she says. “NONE. DAYLIGHT WAS MY VITAMIN. Occasionally, once a year tops, my mom would get us those chalky Flintstones vitamins that looked like kidney stones but we'd only have to eat them for a few days before she lost interest in our health.
“Someone told me my kids need fish oils that cost $60. The closed thing I had to fish oils as a child was whatever the Gorton's fisherman caught, breaded, and fried. Once I got a Kid Cuisine with fish sticks as well because they were on special.”
Bunmi’s main issue is that modern parenting seems to be needlessly difficult.
“Nothing about modern parenting is simple and it irritates me,” she says. “I've seen the way some parents look at me when I give my son a juice box at the park. It's juice, not Red Bull or margarita mix so calm.
If you need me, I'll be in front of my computer crying bitter tears and searching for phthalate-free bubble bath. I don't even know what a phthalate is.”
LOVE it!
