Everyone is a perfect parent before they have kids, right?
, who went viral on TikTok by listing all of the rules she planned on following when she became a parent — then showing how it’s going now that she’s in the trenches.plastic toys in the house,” the video begins — with a well-rested “pre-baby” Freeman sipping a coffee with perfect hair and makeup.
Cut to current-day mom Freeman, dumping a plastic tub full of plastic toys onto the floor, now make-up free, frazzled, and sporting the universal messy mom bun.“Zero screen time,” insists the pre-kid mom, before the video cuts severely to her present-day self watching“Playing outside is food for the child’s soul,” she says next, before the video cuts harshly to the present day as she struggles with laundry and tells a little fib to her kid: “We can’t go to the park today, sweetheart.
Other rules that didn’t go exactly the way she expected before she actually had to parent? Not ripping down dad in front of the kids, not serving processed food, and never using emotional blackmail. Oh — and never using your phone in front of your child.“The perfect parent is always the one with no kids,” one mom commented.
“I have a strict plan for every day,” shared another. “If we manage to do 20% of it at the end of the day I count it as a win.” Commenters were also quick to share their own experiences making parenting rules that they broke once they were actually parents. And they were pretty real.“I’ll never raise my voice at my child,” another shared.
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