As parents, I think the majority of us want to do the best for our kids while still maintaining our sanity and feel like we have it together.

I think sometimes we try so hard and want to do a good job that before we know it, we're trying to be perfect.

Which sounds like it might not be a bad thing, but actually I think there are some serious problems that come along with trying to be a perfect parent.

First, it's an impossible

expectation. To try to or expect to be perfect at parenting is just setting yourself up for failure

because, well, some things aren't going to go as planned and we're just going to fall short. And it kills

authenticity. If you're always trying to hold it together, you aren't expressing emotion,

and that's for sure not what we want to teach our kids to do. Plus, it robs our kids of the opportunity

of how to learn how to handle situations and difficult emotions. We are letting go of parenting

perfectionism today. Let's go. You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at

Everything podcast where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host,

Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants

to do things over the top at all times. This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned

that she was documenting to give to her kids one day.

And now it's a podcast.

Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome

at everything we do.

Here's Lindsay.

Welcome back to the podcast. Today we are talking about the myth, the myth of perfect parenting.

Something that I'm pretty sure we all know doesn't exist, but somehow I think so many of us still struggle at times with the idea of appearing like a

perfect parent. Maybe it's social expectations or things that you see your friends doing or

through social media. But I think the bottom line is those pressures cannot be put on us

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