Rebecca Dube is the Head of TODAY Parents, Digital, and a mom of two boys. A veteran of newspapers and wire service journalism, she loves working for TODAY Digital. Follow her on Threads.
You’ve heard about the bloody nipples from breastfeeding, lack of sleep, hair loss, stretch marks, crying , judgment from strangers — and then, if you get through all that, you get a teenager who’s addicted to their phone, right? I mean, yes. Valid. But shhh, lean in close, here is the REAL secret about motherhood that no one tells you: It is so much fun. It’s true. And I’m not in a post-childbirth endorphin haze. My kids are 10 and 14. We’ve been through some stuff.
They’ll draw something spectacular and weird in art class. They’ll pitch in the big game against some 6’4” 12-year-old called Moose. They’ll do things that you can’t do. And you’ll think, “That’s my kid.” A generation or two ago, it was taboo to talk about the hard parts of motherhood. Women were shunned if they said true things like “breastfeeding is hard” or “having a baby is often mind-numbing boredom mixed with moments of terror.
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