Real Mothers is an attitude, and a way of life.

It started as a local cable television show in Somerville, Massachusetts, but is branching out through the internet.

Real Mothers are everywhere. We've begun to realize that the parenting "experts" are anything but. We see that any kind of nut feels free to criticize our child-rearing, particularly those who don't and have never actually raised children.

We're onto the people writing the parenting books. We see they're not raising the kids. They either have nannys or wives to do that for them. We're not too impressed with their brilliance anymore. We're beginning to be impressed with our own, though.

We all work (like dogs). Some of us get paid, the rest of us ought to. We refuse to waste another minute on the bogus controversy of "Working moms" versus "Stay at home moms." We're going to spread the word that there are many ways to mother, and it's up to us to do whichever we feel we're best at.

We know the enemy is a system that pits us against each other and are commited to fighting that instead of undermining ourselves. We're absolutely  certain that it's

Better to be pissed off than pissed on

and fully intend to enjoy terrorizing anyone who doesn't like it. I am Real Mother, hear my nag and get outa my way . . .

We're not going to celebrate another Labor Day anywhere in the world without demanding that our labor be calculated as part of the gross domestic product, leading to a sensible way to support us for our dedication, so that we don't continue to be, in general, the poorest people in the world.

We may not know how to most effectively make this happen, but we'll figure it out soon - we're HARD workers. The United Nation says we do 2/3 of the world's work for only 5% of the pay. Funny, this never seems to come as a surprise to a Real Mother.

Real Mothers are sometimes Mean Mothers, realizing that life is not a bowl of cherries (or at least if it is, we get stuck with cleaning up the sticky spills, which takes a whole lot of the fun out of it). We're finding that when we're mean to the people who are most deserving (experts, politicians, experts, budinskys, experts, CEO's, etc.) we tend to be nicer to our kids. This is a GREAT trade-off, good for the soul and essential for the healing of this country and world.

Like we have spare time, right?

Real Mother!

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