![]() ![]() 'One of them was from a mum who said she had been looking at her personal feed on Facebook, and felt that she was suffering while all she could see was other people's brilliant family pictures. 'There have been a couple of messages that really stand out. Sarah said: 'People message me with that sense of relief that there is someone else that isn't coping quite as well as you thought everyone else was. Thousands of parents have given feedback, admitting to feeling 'guilty' for not being perfect and finding comfort in her blog. It seems Sarah, who met husband James when she was 16, isn't the only mother feeling this way. 'I think that's fine, and there's hopefully a place for all types of blogs, you just have to think about how just showing the glossy bits can make people feel. 'There's nothing wrong with those types of blogs - I like following Instagram accounts like that myself, because I want the kitchen they've got and love how stylish their kids are - it's aspirational. ![]() 'There can be this feeling of inadequacy, how you will never match up to the glossy lives of people online. ![]() 'I think there's almost this unwritten rule that unless you were really poorly and not coping, it wasn't okay just to be having the odd off day and talk about it. ![]() It was 100 per cent how I was feeling, I wasn't going to sugar coat it. Her other son Henry has a tendency to provide humour in the form of toilet jokes, which are often shared on the Unmumsy Mum Facebook page ![]()
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