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MOMENT | Why so many of us feel burnt out - the modern motherhood crisis, with Renee Reina

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Renee Reina, host of The Mom Room Podcast, joins us to discuss default parenting and why the weight of expectation in our work and our homes has created a perfect storm of modern motherhood. Click here to pre-order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ This show is proudly sponsored by Stokke We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/Motherkind for £100 sponsored credit. With thanks to MATCH Hospitality at Silverstone Circuit for supporting this episode. To discover more visit The Racing Green and use code MOTHERKIND10 for a 10% discount.  Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What are some of those other things that you've thought, I think I'm the only one that

0:11.7

you've then shared and realized actually, this is like a thing.

0:15.9

Okay.

0:17.2

During quarantine, I considered myself for a while in quarantine, like the default parent, because

0:25.4

obviously we couldn't leave the house. Milo was at a difficult age. He was like 18 months old.

0:31.8

And my husband was working his regular job. So he got to like hop in the car and go to work and come home. And I put out this

0:41.7

piece of content. I think it was a clip from a podcast episode about how annoyed I would be on

0:48.5

Saturday mornings when my husband would start making a big pancake breakfast. And it pretty much broke the internet because

0:57.9

people were like, oh my God, her poor husband, like he's just trying to make breakfast for the family.

1:04.7

And here she is irritated. But once I broke it down, people were like, oh my God, I so get this because on Saturday morning,

1:14.4

I was looking forward to that time because finally my husband was home. He wasn't going off to

1:20.1

work. It was like a day where there was another adult in the house to take care of Milo and do all the things. So I had been doing my job of,

1:33.0

you know, mothering and parenting and staying home with Milo times 10 because it was quarantine

1:39.3

and we couldn't distract ourselves with like visits or anything. So then finally Saturday morning rolls around.

1:46.6

And I think that I'm going to get a break from my job that I've been doing all week now.

1:52.5

But when your partner starts to make a big breakfast in the kitchen, you're now left in the

1:59.0

living room continuing on doing the job that you have

2:01.7

been doing all week. Or a lot of people give the example of their partner goes out to cut the grass,

2:08.6

or, you know, hops in the car and goes and gets the car washed or like runs errands. And it's like,

2:15.2

now I'm just doing what I've been doing all week and I was looking forward

2:18.4

to being able to do something else. So even though on paper it looked amazing that my husband

2:25.7

was making pancakes, I was like, listen, Milo can have toast with peanut butter. Like we don't

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