Being a young working mother today is one of the most challenging balancing acts a woman can face. I say "today" because through constant calls with my own working mother (seeking sanity), I have come to theorize that we are much harder on ourselves now than generations past. We judge women who work and those who don't when decades ago both groups empowered each other. We calculate how many hours we're spending with our children versus at our jobs when before, a woman's life wasn't defined by either.  We're climbing corporate ladders and nudging glass ceilings yet leaving our worth up to how well we're received by the PTA. As with all evolutionary processes, we'll find the right balance at some point but until then I'd like to offer empathy to the other guilt-hoarding working mothers of today and hopefully a little hilarity to the ridiculous expectations we hoist upon ourselves.