Thank you for this article!  I felt this from the moment I was pregnant with my first child.  Parenthood is all about guilt.  Todays parents… mums are meant to be everything.  I never played with my mum and never felt neglected because of it!  I wonder if our kids are brought up to expect parents to play with them and therefore feel neglected when we didn’t ?  I often say to to, my now teenagers, ” I’m not your mate… I’m your mum” and feel awful every time.  Being a good mum is about caring for your kids, not what social media tells us a good mum is.  Well that’s what I try to tell myself :-)