Ask any mom and they will tell you, it is one of the busiest jobs you will ever have in your life. Not only is it a job that keeps you on your toes and you never quite know what you are to expect from one moment to the next, those moments never end. That’s right, a mother is a mother 24-hours a day and it doesn’t matter how tired she is or what might be on her schedule, she is going to have to deal with the stress of motherhood.
Nobody knows this better than Rebecca Patterson, a mother from Pearland, Texas who has her hands full. She is the mother of a 2-year-old and a 2-month-old so I’m sure she is well aware of how to think on her feet. This came in handy recently when she went shopping with the kids and they both had an outburst at the same time. She was feeling rather embarrassed and perhaps a little overwhelmed. I’m sure any parent can relate to what Rebecca was feeling.
I’m sure you can appreciate that keeping up with young kids is not easy and it can come with a lot of stress. After all, we need to have our attention focused in so many different ways that sometimes, it just gets jumbled. We even need to consider ourselves as well.
When a parent has young children, they often try to keep their lives as open as possible because you never know what is going to happen next. When Rebecca went into a superstore with two kids on that day, I’m sure she thought something might go wrote but she may not have expected a double melt-down. She was stressed when she walked into Target but it was about to get more stressed.
Nobody in the store seemed to notice that her kids were having a problem. Not one person had any fellow feeling. They just passed by or stared, making her feel embarrassed.
She was trying to return something and keep the kids calm at the same time. She tried her hardest but it just wasn’t working. At this point, she was probably thinking of how she knew it wasn’t a good idea to bring the kids along from the start.
As Rebecca was rushing to get out of the store, she was approached by a stranger and she asked if any help was needed. The young mother wasn’t sure if she should take her up on the offer or not.
As her emotions were flowing, she felt like she should admit defeat and get help from the kind stranger.
As it turns out, the stranger was also there to shop but she had been watching everything unfold. She then carried the 2-year-old and kept him calm. As Rebecca looked on, she saw something amazing in the stranger so she stopped to snap a picture.
The stranger is Tiffany Gulliory and since uploading the picture, it has gone viral.