That's who she is

My daughter's child's play group has sort of nastily divided into the stay-at-home-mommies and the working mommies - with, it seems to me, a little jealousy on both sides.

However, a person who would pass judgment on someone else's child care and mothering choices is the kind of person who won't hesitate to tell you everything else you are doing wrong. My advice is to avoid her like the plague she is.

Frankly, there will always be someone who not only bakes their own bread, but grows and grinds their own wheat; has a professional-grade play yard; has a bigger house in a better neighborhood; is teaching their two-year-old Mandarin Chinese; - in short, is doing things you never thought of but think would be great for your child - if you just had the time and money to do it.

Life's too short to try to live up to someone else's expectations. Let's assume that we're all trying to do the best we can.