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| Pink says: don't shut up! |
I’m all for embracing Sheryl
Sandberg’s new Lean In campaign to delete the word “bossy” from our vocabulary
and instead fully support & champion those head-strong, feisty, take-no-prisoners qualities in
our little girls.
Yes, #BanBossy!
However, I’m wondering if
Sheryl has twin girls – age 9 – who quite seriously would like to run my household,
your planet, the universe???
Pink, the kick-ass, pop-rock
star’s recent quote running through the social media channels: “It’s about
being alive and feisty and NOT sitting down and shutting up. Even though people
would like you to,” is all well and good.
And I support it. Conceptually.
But has Pink tried to get a
set of feisty girls off to school this morning? Each determined to create their
own hair-doo, pick thru the lunch I made for them “I wanted Cranberries! Not Raisins, dear Mother!” and battle me
through sunscreen application wars.
Whew.
I feel there should be
support groups set up for the moms and dads of this “embracing the leadership
qualities of young girls.”
“Hi, my name is Annie, and
I’m a mother of two future leaders of America…..”
“HI ANNIE……..”
With a twinkle in her eye (I
was there – I saw the twinkle), Sheryl’s advice to a room full of
mommy-bloggers at a BlogHer conference last summer was to: take a deep breath
in this very moment of being run around by our daughters and realize with
amazement and adoration, hey, my daughter is demonstrating excellent Executive
Leadership skills! (The crowd went wild…)
Hmmm.
By the time they leave for
college, I may be seriously blue in the face, starved of oxygen for the next
ten years with all of the giant, deeeeep breaths and possible breath-holding that I’ll need to be doing. Or,
I may be the most chill, forward thinking mom out there. Time will tell.
So, yes, #BanBossy. Bring it
on. And, I’ll set up a couple of extra oxygen tanks, just in case.
Be. Breathe. Do it. – OM
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