Does it really suck to be a mom in New York City?

Well, it certainly has it’s ups and downs to say the least.

After New York Magazine writer Emily Nussbaum chronicled the absurd (and often twisted) lives of mostly bitter uptown moms on UrbanBaby.com in Mothers Anonymous , there was Amy Sohn’s piece in the August 7th issue of the mag. Unlike many of the women in Emily’s piece who wax nasty about their lives, children and husbands, Amy offers her readers a glimpse into her own personal struggles as a mom trying to balance her desire to be a devoted parent, while still being a cool Brooklyn chick in A Glass of Wine and a Pacifier, Please.

And across the pond…

Mom Helen Kirwan-Taylor spills the beans on mothering (and it ain’t always pretty) in a Daily Mail piece entitled, Sorry, But My Children Bore Me to Death.

Um, so you get the gist of that story.

Anyway, with all of this maternal angst and frustration brewing, it’s only fitting that Gawker jump on the anti-June-Cleaver bandwagon with a very personal and very anonymous on-line diary called, Diary of a Park Slope Mommy:

To learn what’s going on in the minds of these people, we’ve found a willing diarist from the trenches of motherhood. Perhaps more importantly, she’s from the trenches of the most smug, self-righteous childrearing section of New York: Park Slope.

Say hello to Anon:

So here I am, the bitch in the brownstone, leaving my Maclaren at the bottom of the three flight walk-up. You know me: I’m the mom who lets her kids run untended through the Tea Lounge, while I sneer at your parenting; I’m the one at the Power Play birthday party who disapproves of the superhero-themed goody bags and the fruit-punch juice boxes; I’m the woman standing behind you in line at the Co-op, appalled at your choice of non-organic breakfast cereal. Face it: I’ve been judging you. These are your stories.

I wonder if this “mother of two” is really Gawker editor Jessica Coen?

That would be beautiful irony.