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1. Making "Hands On" an Understatement
Millennial moms can stay at home, work away, work from home.. heck, they can do whatever they please. But that doesn't stop them from being the most hands on motherhood generation to see our world in quite some time. From taking swim lessons with your children to teaching them sign language before they can even speak, millennials have truly made hands on an understatement.
2. Research is Your Friend
Every parenting decision has been heavily weighed out inside a millennial moms head, through hours of devoted research around the topic. What was once standard is no longer standard anymore, and moms are deciding on their own whether or not what our parents consider to be 'normal' works for our own families anymore. It is acceptable now to go against the grain.
3. Crunchy is No Longer a Noise
"Crunch crunch crunch!" Nope. Not what we are talking about. Millennial mothers have coined the term crunchy mom, meaning a mother who in some variation goes through strenuous efforts to both create/harvest and provide the necessities for their families. You can be any level of crunchy you desire but chances are sometime within a millennial moms journey she will have ventured into making something all on her own. Whether you decide to feed your children veggies only from your garden or make all soaps/washes/detergents/butt cream etc. for your little ones, you crunch away.
4. Children See More now than Ever
Millennial mothers have decided that children are justified to go anywhere in which they might be. Going shopping? Pack the kiddos. Want to go wine tasting at a vineyard? Strap the baby into the carrier and get a move on. Decided to sell your home and travel the world? Won't stop anyone from having children, they get to join in on the adventure. The millennials have made it clear that the choice to have children does not stop anyone from doing what they desire, it only adds to the fun!
5. Down with No
Instead of being quick to jump on children for doing something like getting into the pots and pans or fishing through the mud to see what it beholds, millennial moms see this as an opportunity to learn something new. There is still an obvious difference in saying no to playing with an outlet and saying no to staying up an extra hour to talk about hand shadows on the ceiling, but this generation of mothers sees the curiosity children have within them and run with it!
6. Blue is Not for Boys
And likewise pink no longer makes a baby a girl. Millennials have bridged the gap between gender association and will often find it offensive if you scold them for giving their son a doll, or letting their daughter play with cars. It's few and far between that you'll find a millennial willing to tell their child not to engage in an an activity because "it's only for boys/girls".
7. Super Mom is Super Real
You heard me. She exists. She is real inside every millennial moms heart and soul and we are seeing woman accomplish things with child in tow that we have never imagined possible before. Being able to own and run a business, teach age appropriate curriculum to your children, harvest a home garden, run a blog and make time for the gym all in a days work is totally normal. While all moms have been super no matter their day in age, millennial moms are doing a great job at making all of this look effortless.
While millennial moms slowly take over the world of motherhood and change everything we have known before credit needs to be given where credit is due. The mothers before us made us into mothers ourselves, the millennials have simply taken the noun, transformed it into a verb and made it into something all our own. Something we can be proud of. Cheers super moms!
- T
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