Must start therapy fund. Now.

Some of the parenting editors in the United States are all atwitter about this Alpha Mom ”trend.” It’s an interesting concept. Very East Coast. 

It’s difficult not to notice, however, that this particular Alpha Mom has a team of nannies and babysitters at her beck and call. And that it might behoove her to consider scheduling a little more personal time for herself and her spouse. With her “village” as back-up, surely she can spare the time for a date with the other man in her life.

Interesting.

I’d wager that all mothers in the final days of pregnancy can see infinity looming before them. And when the child is born, it’s a completely different world. This woman’s reaction to motherhood is not completely alien. It’s her determination to turn motherhood into a business opportunity: touting an ideal that bears little meaning for the moms out there without a team of experts and caregivers to help bolster their rate of personal productivity.

That kid is going to throw her for a loop someday. Best start the therapy fund now. For the both of them. For her, when she finally realizes that control is an illusion. For him, well, for obvious reasons.

Yikes. As if mothering isn’t difficult enough without expecting perfection. And someone else’s idea of perfection, at that.