People Are Thanking This Mum For Her Brutally Honest Facebook Post About Parenting
Note to everyone: stop judging parents.
This is Aly Brothers, a 22-year-old mom of two in West Virginia.
Aly Brothers
Her kids — 3-year-old Bentley and 20-month-old Levi — are adorable, but they can also be a handful. "They’re very cute, they have more good days than bad. But the bad days, man, they take a toll," Brothers told BuzzFeed News.
Aly Brothers
One of those bad days came on Aug. 21. However, it was the judgement of the people around Brothers that finally pushed her to tears.
Aly Brothers
She'd taken the boys on an early morning grocery run for milk, but Bentley and Levi were definitely not in the mood.
"We got to the store and they really just didn’t want to be there," said Brothers.
Levi didn't want to sit in the cart and start throwing things — his shoes, her wallet — and crying. Bentley, meanwhile, ran ahead to open the freezers and knocked a few items around. Brothers kept her cool though because, as any parent knows, sometimes this is just what kids do.
At least, she did until they got to the cashier. The boys started fighting over a balloon and everyone around her began glaring. Then an older gentleman whispered, "she's pretty young for two kids." That's when she lost it.