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    7 Mom Fails I Refuse to Feel Guilty About

    I let my kids watch TV for hours on end on Sunday mornings, just so I can do things like actually take a shower without someone banging on the bathroom door. The TV thing is surely not doing much for our children's brains, but I refuse to feel guilty about this. Like many mothers, I have parenting things I feel guilty about, including school trips I can't go on because I'm working or those times when I space out on stuff like buying the poster board my daughter needed for a class project. But there are also plenty of so-called fails that I refuse to feel badly about, too. Check out these 7 mom fails I (and other moms!) refuse to feel guilty about: - By Ellen Seidman

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      "One of my kids is supposed to practice multiplication and division flashcards 10 minutes a day, five nights a week. My son knows these flashcards backwards and forwards. He knows his multiplication and division better than I know my multiplication and division. I have very happily marked down that he has done his practice on nights when he hasn't. I don't feel guilty because of all ... more 
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      No-guilt mom fail: I let my kid skip homework
      "One of my kids is supposed to practice multiplication and division flashcards 10 minutes a day, five nights a week. My son knows these flashcards backwards and forwards. He knows his multiplication and division better than I know my multiplication and division. I have very happily marked down that he has done his practice on nights when he hasn't. I don't feel guilty because of all the things that my kiddo has trouble with, this ain't one of them. I don't ever do his homework for him and he works really hard so I figure letting this slide a couple days a week really isn't so bad." - Jean Winegardner of Stimeyland
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