GRAMMY-award winning singer Adele is back in the headlines with a brand new epic song.
But bigger news again was that she dropped some truth bombs about the realities of parenting.
The English singer, who has ventured back into the spotlight this week with Hello after a three-year hiatus to raise her son, spoke frankly about how she is finding residing in parentsville.
She told iD Magazine that being a mother to three-year-old Angelo is “f***ing hard”.
The 27-year-old went on to admit: “I thought it would be easy. Everyone does it. How hard can it be? I had no idea.
“It is hard, but it’s phenomenal. It’s the greatest thing I ever did. He makes me be a d***head, and he makes me feel young, and there’s nothing more grounding than a kid kicking off and refusing to do what you’re asking of them.
"It used to be that my own world revolved around me, but now it has to revolve around him.”
It sure is refreshing to hear a celebrity, apart from Gwyneth Paltrow, talk with such honesty about parenting and not mention gloopy organic mush, conscious uncoupling, spiritual parenting and Mandarin lessons.
And while Gwynnie annoyed us all a year ago by telling us how being a multi-million-pound, perpetually pampered and gorgeous film star with mansions in two countries and access to all the childcare she desired was a million times more challenging than being an ordinary working mum, Adele has won us over with her brutal honesty.
She might well have a few pounds in the bank too, but we can relate to her.
Take away the Grammys and the big house and the millions and she's just like us – a mum, trying her best, with varying degrees of success, to do the toughest job in the world.
It's nice to think that while Adele's shelves may be groaning under the pressure of all those glittery Grammy awards, her son does not give a hoot about her celebrity status.
To him, the only person allowed to throw diva strops in their house is him, when the Thomas the Tank Engine DVD ends or he's not allowed chocolate for breakfast.
To him, she is just mum, like the rest of us mums – the one on the receiving end of a spaghetti-filled flying spoon and the one he cries for at 3am when he has a fever.
Us mere mortal parents need to hear frequently that it's not easy. We need to know that we are not the only people who suffer, who are driven mad, who feel sometimes that we can't cope, or that we are a bad mum and are totally failing at this parenting malarkey.
It's good to hear from someone – albeit a multi-millionaire celebrity with many, many more resources than any of us ordinary folk could ever dream of having – saying that, with all this at her disposal, it is still hard.
Some days you laugh so hard with your kids that the world is a wonderful, beautiful place to be and you smile to yourself and think you're the bee's knees in parenting – that you deserve an actual Grammy, or equal and equivalent award, for parenting.
Some days kids can kick your ass so badly you can barely muster the strength to crawl to bed at the end of the day on your hands and knees.
Some days you think you are doing everything wrong and that you are a rubbish parent.
Some days you wonder what you did wrong in a previous life to deserve such advanced levels of worry.
Then the good days roll around again. And on and on it goes. Adele is right. Parenting is f***ing hard. But it's also f***ing worth it.
