'Bad Moms" is a Movie Most Moms will Relate To

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Whether you are currently raising children or your kids are grown, the new movie, "Bad Moms" is a story you will probably be able to relate to. Amy (Mila Kunis) is an over-worked, stressed-out, exhausted mother with an inattentive husband, good kids and a comfortable home. Tired of trying to be the perfect mom and live up to the expectations of everyone else, she decides to accept that she is never going to be perfect ... she is just a bad mom. Amy joins forces with two other stressed-out mothers (played by Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn) and the three of them confess that they just cannot keep up the pretense any longer. The movie is hilarious. Both my adult daughter (who has two teenage children of her own) and I laughed through scene after scene. Despite the humor, however, it also brought back a number of memories from those years when I was a young mother raising four daughters in an up-scale neighborhood where I sometimes felt as if all the other mothers knew how to have perfect children and no one had told me their secret! If parenting sometimes leaves you frustrated and unappreciated, you may find that this movie gives you a fresh, new perspective! Finally ... a breath of fresh air about the realities of parenting. Mothers are enjoying this film so much, that groups of them are going to see it together and then posting their pictures on Twitter as "Bad Moms."