Melissa Joan Hart: Mothering Is, Like, Hard And Stuff
Melissa Joan Hart, famous for some show that I forget, is lamenting the fact that when her rocker husband goes on tour this week, she’s going to be all alone with the little darlings:
“I’m not sure I can handle two babies on my own, unlike my sis who is super-mom,” Hart, 32, who gave birth to son Braydon Hart Wilkerson in March, writes on her MySpace Celebrity blog.
The actress and husband Mark Wilkerson, 30, a Grammy-nominated musician, also have 2-year-old son Mason.
“We are adjusting nicely to being a family of four, although it is a tough job,” says Hart. “It’s about to get a lot tougher as Mark leaves on tour this week.”
Poor thing. I can just imagine what it is like to have a toddler and an infant at home at the same time. No, really, I can, because I did it. My husband worked 60-70 hours a week. And look, we all survived!
I find it hard to muster up a lot of sympathy for a woman who has enough dough to, oh, I don’t know…hire someone to help out?
Don’t get me wrong. I applaud celebs who want to raise their own kids without leaving them solely to the nanny, but come on. This isn’t a true single mom who has to make the decision about either finding decent childcare while she works her minimum-wage job or leaving the kids home alone because she can’t afford it, or having to make the decision between paying a babysitter or buying food for the week. This is a celeb who lives in a nicer house than most of us will ever see, has more money that most of us will ever have, and who can afford to have someone come in at least a few hours a day to help out with things.
I’m sure she already has someone helping with the housework (unlike the aforementioned exhausted single mom, who has to pick up her dinky little apartment whenever she gets the opportunity after working all day long) and the yard work (again, unlike the single mom in the apartment with no yard at all for her kids to play in), so hiring someone to help change nappies and feed bottles a few hours a day shouldn’t be a stretch of the finances. I’m sure her life is busy, but come on.
So call me when your life gets really rough, Melissa. Until then, shut up and go change a diaper, because while you were whining on MySpace your kid just dropped a load.
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I didn’t get the impression that she was whining about the workload or the lack of help. From what I read, it was more about the loneliness of the situation. Not that she’s going to be totally alone, but more like she’ll actively miss her spouse, miss him being there to co-parent, miss that day-to-day life they normally share. Of course, what she’s experiencing is nowhere near the sort of separation that military spouses endure, nor is it the type of “I’m worried about my husband/wife” thing that the spouses of police officers or firefighters experience.
I get where she’s coming from. Been there, done that. Still do it, in fact. All I can say is at least she’s pretty damn far removed from so many other pampered and privileged celebs who have little connection to their offspring.
Comment by Joanie — May 12, 2008 @ 10:51 am
The article is about “temporary single motherhood”. She might miss her husband but that wasn’t the crux of the original article. In fact, I take umbrage with the term “single motherhood” because she ISN’T a single mom, she’s a married mom who’s husband is temporarily leaving to go do his job.
And yeah…it isn’t like he’s going off to a tour of duty in Iraq.
Comment by k — May 12, 2008 @ 10:55 am
It’s hard for any of us to complain when we think about those less fortunate than us. Like moms in villages in Africa where they have to not only worry about finding food to feed their children, but also rebel fighters shooting them down during that very search for food.
We have it so good and we just don’t know it.
All of Hollywood should just shut up about the travails of parenting, considering what a piss-poor job most them do!
Comment by d — May 12, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
No joke. It’s appalling what some people think is a tragedy in their lives. I think some people need to get over themselves. And shut up, while they’re at it.
Oh wait, then we’d have nothing to write about.
Comment by k — May 12, 2008 @ 3:07 pm