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And we return to our American stories. Tiffany Jenkins is a wife and a mother of three. She's acquired a huge social media following on her blog Juggling the Jenkins, where her videos receive millions of views. Tiffany wrote a highly successful memoir, achiever. The shocking true story of one addict.
Double life. Here's Tiffany Jenkins with the rest of her story. and what it means. to be a good mom. You know what I want to talk about today?
I want to talk about what it means to be a good mom, okay? Because listen. If you look on social media and YouTube, okay, let's take YouTube for example, they have tons of videos. Of families announcing pregnancies to their loved ones, right? And it's always so joyous, everybody's so excited, and screaming, and yelling, and they're like, Oh my god, finally, thank you.
Look at these little booties, I'm gonna have a grandkid.
Okay. That was not how my pregnancy announcement went. I had been living in a halfway house for two months and I started dating this guy. And I got an overnight pass, okay, one weekend. I got one overnight pass.
I'm not going to go into detail about what happened on the Overnight Pass. But let's just say that two weeks later, my body started acting a little weird. I didn't have a job or a car at the time, so I scraped together some quarters and walked my butt down to the Dollar Tree and bought a pregnancy test. I took a pregnancy test in the bathroom of the halfway house I was living at with six other women. And when the second line popped up, I collapsed on the floor and lost.
My mind. It was not joyous. I was not excited. I was terrified. I had just started gaining trust back with my family.
What was I going to tell them? How was I gonna tell the owner of the halfway house that I abused the one overnight pass they finally gave me? What was I going to do? I couldn't even take care of myself. How was I going to take care of a child?
I was terrified. I prayed out. And I said, listen. Technically, physically. I know why this happened, but like spiritually and mentally, I don't know why this happened.
Please help me. What am I supposed to do? I can't have this baby. And it was in that moment that that I realized suddenly I wanted this baby more than I had ever wanted anything in my entire life. I told my sister.
I'm basically like, okay, you're an idiot. I told the owner of the halfway house. And he could have kicked me out, but he didn't. He let me live there and pay rent until I could get on my feet.
So I married the man who got me pregnant. five months after we started dating. And I continued to live in the halfway house up until near the end of my pregnancy. My recovery didn't stop just because I was pregnant. I had to keep working on myself.
I got a job, busted my butt, got a car, we got an apartment, and my son was born on my birthday. It was the greatest gift that I've ever received. When my son was six months old, I found out I was pregnant with the cloaster. She burst into the world. A colopy period of tears and chaos, and I got postpartum depression.
Two weeks after she was born, my bonus daughter came to live with us full-time, and I was battling. postpartum depression full on. I went from being a single sexy bachelorette living in a halfway house to a married mother of three in the span of two years.
Okay. When it comes to motherhood, I have no clue what I'm doing. I don't. When I was suffering from postpartum depression, I used to go to social media for support. And I, you know, to try to see what other people were doing because I had no clue.
And I quickly realized that it seemed like everybody else had their life together. while mine was crumbling. Everybody's home looked beautiful, while mine looked like a hurricane just ripped through the living room. All the moms were posing with their babies looking so perfect and wonderful while I wanted to leave mine in the crib and run out the front door and never come back. I can't explain what that did to me internally as a person.
It made me feel like a failure. We made me feel ashamed. It made me feel Like maybe I wasn't meant to be a mom. There was one day, one day especially, where I resented my children just for existing. I didn't want to take care of him anymore.
I didn't want to be a mom anymore.
So I called my doctor. crying and I said Is it bad that I don't want the kids anymore? And they said, come into the office right now. And they got me in that say and the doctor and I worked on a recovery plan for me. Once I started to feel better, I turn it to right.
And I wrote for numerous reasons. I wrote because It was really therapeutic for me to get it out of my head and onto paper. And I chose to share my writing because where I looked. Everything looked so perfect.
So I thought maybe If there's just one person out there. Who's feeling the same way as me? They can read what I've written and see that they're not alone. And that's where Juggling the Jenkins was born. A good mom is not measured by her ability to keep a clean home.
Some people have more money than other people.
Some people have more possessions than other people, but none of that matters. Life is gonna go by like this. It's gonna be over before you know it. And I promise you. that it is not going to say anywhere in your obituary.
Her house was really clean. We gotta stop stressing about the little stuff. We gotta stop wasting time beating ourselves up over the little dot. and start spending more time. creating memories with our kit.
taking on places, putting our phones down. chillin' with them. Going outside, when they come up to you and they say, Mommy, will you play with me? Instead of saying, Just a second. Just get up and play with them.
Because I can promise you that neither of you will ever regret that decision. I have to remind myself of this daily. I'm the queen of, in just a minute, babe, I'm the queen. and do it all day long.
So I have to remind myself. That minute will never come. And I know that, and they know that.
So it is up to me to make the minutes count now. What makes a good mom? I don't think there's one answer. A good mom is somebody who doesn't spend hours obsessing about how they aren't good enough. A good mom is somebody who recognizes that they have a problem and does whatever they can to fix it, whether it be addiction, alcoholism.
Anger. Depression picking action. Makes a good mom. But it all boils down. Hello.
Being a shining example to the kids of what love is about. Showing them love and showing others love. as often as possible. And that was Tiffany Jenkins you were listening to and what a voice. And so straight, straight as an arrow.
And by the way... That line in the beginning, what was I gonna do? I can't take care of myself. How am I going to take care of this child? Yeah, that reminds me of the narrator in There Goes My Life by Kenny Chesney.
If you remember the lines, all you could think about was, I'm too young for this, got my whole life ahead. Hell, I'm just a kid myself. How am I going to raise more? By the way, we're never ready to raise a kid. I've had t so many people say.
I'm not ready.
Well, you're never ready. And she jumped in and raised this child. And what great advice. Uh and mom's good ones. And good fathers do this too.
Show them love. and show others love. as often as possible. I have no idea what I'm doing, she also said. And you know what?
None of us do. And people like love to give a lot of advice about parenting. But it's not easy, and if anybody had the formula down Well, share it with the world. You'll be a billionaire. Um it's no duck walk, but that advice Love others and yours.
as often as possible, about as good as it gets. Tiffany Jenkins' story here on Our American Stories. Get ready for the wildest sight your lawn has ever seen. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. This spring, unleash soil science like never before.
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