I just want to share that I am not a parent. My mother stayed at home to raise myself and my siblings while our father worked. Later, my mother returned to work due to financial problems. I have a sister who is a working mother. She loves her children and her job. Our other sister (not a parent) deems her "selfish" and "not a good mother" because she is a working parent. (???)

I support all women. Mothers or not. Staying at home or out in the workplace. If only we could be kind and understanding toward each other regardless of our differing life choices. This world will bring each of us plenty of knocks and falls, men and women, and so the petty judgments and comparisons only serve to add more pain.

I recently chatted with a new mother who feels that she gets judged by various people in her life for every single parenting decision she makes. I believe the only other person who should be weighing in on those decisions is her husband. Other folks should mind their own.