Soleil Moon Frye Wants the Secret Mom's Handbook
Just in case you’re wondering how celebrity moms make motherhood look so effortless… well, they’re wondering too. Actress Soleil Moon Frye, co-founder of The Little Seed, and now mother to two daughters, Poet, 2 ½, and Jagger, 5 months, admits to CBB that she doesn’t know how other mothers manage two kids at once and make it look easy. She says,
I’m totally the mom who tries really hard, but then I walk out of the door and trip down the stairs. I’m learning every day, and every day is a different challenge.
I have no idea how my mom did it as a single mom. I have so much respect for all of the single parents out there, all the families that have multiple kids and juggle jobs and careers.
On her store’s new Seedling Blog, she wonders if she’s alone in thinking that "all of the other moms got a secret handbook that you somehow missed out on" that tells you things like:
- not to leave your heavy diaper bag on the stroller when you take your kid out,
- how some parents manage to open strollers with one hand,
- why we can never remember to "bring a change of clothes for ourselves [when] with the amount of spit up, we need it more than them,"
- and why it’s so hard to carry both kids at once – "Are [the celeb moms in magazines] secretly inpain or is it really that comfortable?"
Photo by Soleil Moon Frye, used with permission.
Jagger is wearing Under the Nile’s long sleeve side snap onesie ($16) and footed pants ($15) in lemon.
Have you ever wondered how other moms do it? What parenting secrets do you wish someone would let you in on?
