Amy Poehler Advises Working Moms: 'Do Your Best'

formula and nannies? everyone knows breastmilk and a stay at home mom is best! i can’t believe these celebrities. disgusting.

*kidding*

I’m sorry, but I cannot feel bad for celebrity mothers who continue to work. They have so much more at their disposal than the average person – nannies, flexible schedules, ability to bring your child to work, etc. Both my husband and I work full time and we don’t have a nanny to take care of our daughter when we get off work or in the middle of the night when she wakes up. I work from the time I get up until the time I go to bed, which I’m sure is more than what these celebrities do.

I love that little baldy! Plus, his parents are hysterical.

mamanb, I’m willing to concede to you that breastmilk is best…because study after study has shown it to be so. It’s why my daughter is still nursing at 13 months and has never had formula.

But a stay at home mom is not best for every child, and a working mother is not disgusting, celebrity or not. Being a stay at home mom doesn’t make you a better mother.

I think all of us mothers need to give each other a break. It’s tough on all of us, whether we’re working or not because each situation has their pros and cons. To say one is better than the other is self-indulgent because each family is unique. It certainly doesn’t help to judge another person’s situation and it’s certainly not fair to compare because regardless of how similar our circumstances are, we are all different individuals.

Perhaps there are mothers who do have it easy but so far, I have never met one and I’m pretty sure filthy rich socialites have their own sets of problems too – they’re just not in the same world as most of us regular folks are so I hardly think we should look to them for anything at all. We can just read and/or watch and/or listen and take a page for their stories and not let it get to us, whether positively or negatively. At the end of the day, yes, all we can do is try our best.