{"id":5573,"date":"2012-05-09T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T08:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:03:12","slug":"do-you-have-a-mum-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/do-you-have-a-mum-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have A ‘Mum-brain’?"},"content":{"rendered":"Yesterday I had a great<\/em> mum day.\n\nFirstly my daughter walked straight into dog muck on her way to school and freaked out royally (not that I blame her seeing as some dog owner had left it slap bang in the middle of the pavement)! Then I had a sudden visual migraine (caused by three hours sleep) while driving and had to pull over causing some van driver to go ballistic even though I signaled and put my hazards on first. This was then topped off by my 2 year old locking me out of the house as I got the shopping out of the car.\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n\nThe front door was actually on the latch at the time but he managed to pick up my keys and chubb lock the door from the inside. As I got my spare keys from my neighbour, I mentioned what had happened to me so far and he ‘helpfully’ said, “Oh you have one of those mum brains like my wife”.\n\nApart from being a badly timed joke, I hate the expression ‘mum brain’ because it infers that as a mum we’re all stupid, silly, and ditsy because nothing occupies our minds. Aside from the fact no-one ever says that to dads, it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that juggling kids, work and life takes a lot of brain cells, but of course, I didn’t say that because I am far too polite (and because I was afraid I’d SHOUT very loudly at him).\n\nStudies actually show that far from killing off brain cells, motherhood maximizes them and even though I know that, I still feel slighted by the ‘mum-brain’ term. Or maybe I was having a sense of humour failure?\n\nHas anyone ever accused you of having a mum brain? Do you hate the term? Let me know what you think.\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday I had a great mum day. Firstly my daughter walked straight into dog muck on her way to school and freaked out royally (not that I blame her seeing as some dog owner had left it slap bang in the middle of the pavement)! 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