Experts agree that mothers have it very tough right now. If you’re a stay-at-home mom, your job is more intense than usual. Your children are home 24/7, which means you hardly get a break. You have also probably been given a few new job titles: teacher, tutor, craft organizer, lunch lady, and naptime supervisor. If you are a working mom, you’re trying to juggle stay-at-home duties with your work duties, trying to please your boss, kids, and partner, all in a day’s work. But right now, you’re doing several days’ work in one.

I know fathers are working extra hard right now too, but mothers carry with them a heavy mental load. They feel a deeper, more innate sense of responsibility for their child’s well-being and are constantly thinking about everything everyone needs: meals, baths, laundry, homework.

While I can’t do anything about the pandemic or the government’s orders, I do have some encouragement for you, mothers. Most often, moms feel the most pressure from the one looking back at them in the mirror. You guilt yourselves when you aren’t operating at 100% in every area of your lives. Right now, during a global pandemic, you will not be operating…