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"  Yes, online inspiration boards and back issues of Real Simple are crack rock to some crafty moms. But, as Mother&amp;#039;s Day approaches, is total immersion in beautiful kitchenware and perfectly-decorated family rooms actually unhealthy for their self-esteem? A study revealed on this morning&amp;#039;s Today Show (via Beta Beat) declared that 42 percent of moms suffer from &amp;quot;Pinterest stress&amp;quot;\u2014feeling self-conscious about not being able to perfectly re-create some of the extremely unrealistic kitchen mis en scenes displayed on Pinterest. One mom even called it &amp;quot;a site of unrealized dreams.&amp;quot; :-(((( Another one confirmed that the site tapped into a bigger issue \u2014 feeling inadequate as a mom, in general. Lamented one mom: &amp;quot;We have a hard time enjoying our own experiences because we feel it&amp;#039;s not worthy of this invisible judge. It&amp;#039;s so easy to get depressed. You start to feel like your entire life has to be like a magazine all the time.&amp;quot; As these ladies spiral into daily trips to Michaels and A.C. Moore and late nights hunched over felt or ribbon in an attempt to spruce up their lives/Pinterest pages, their obsession with being the second coming of Martha Stewart puts aside the fact that their kids... well, just want a mom. Once one of the moms realized this, she calmed down about being the perfect homemaker (and hopefully signed off Pinterest). So on Mother&amp;#039;s Day, you might want to remind your mom that whether or not she&amp;#039;s had time to hang 100 perfect peanut-butter pinecones on the trees to feed the birds, she&amp;#039;s still cool as hell. Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslaw Image via Gridley+Graves Photographers "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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