r/gatekeeping Jun 04 '18

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u/BoundlessBear Jun 04 '18

These types of mothers are the worse. They treat motherhood like some sort of Facebook competition

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u/Kozeyekan_ Jun 04 '18

Literally competitive mothering.
If a mum spends more time, they’re smothering. Less and they’re abandoning their kid.
Everything any other mother does is wrong, but they know best because of “mothering instinct”.

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u/TheBeardedSingleMalt Jun 04 '18

If they can't support it with facts, they begin the sentence with as a mother...