This mum's "guilty" confessions will make you feel better about your #mumfails

Melissa Radke's signs of "mum guilt" have been viewed over half a million times.
Melissa Radke's signs of "mum guilt" have been viewed over half a million times. Photo: Facebook/Melissa Radke

Last year, US mum Melissa Radke's rant about school theme days had us all in hysterics. Now, the very funny mother-of-two is back with a new clip - and this time she's taking on "mum guilt".

In a video posted to her Facebook page, Radke confesses to a number of  "guilty" secrets - including her son's less-than-healthy school lunches, her daughter's missed dental appointments and running out of toilet paper.

"I've been out of laundry detergent for two weeks," Radke says, adding that she gives "zero craps".
"My son's lunchkit today consisted of two bags of cool ranch Doritos, a boiled egg and a pickle," she continues, hiding her face to reveal the final clanger - that it also included a coke.
Describing herself as "hungover" from all the mum guilt, Radke also reveals that she's let her children fall asleep in her own bed.
 
The clip, which has now been viewed over half a million times, has polarised viewers.
Many shamed Radke's parenting - with some even labelling her "negligent".
"You should feel bad for caring more about your hair than your own kids dental hygiene," one woman wrote. "That's borderline neglect."
Others, however, praised the mother-of-two for keeping it real - and for helping them feel better about their own #mumfails.
Radke later addressed some of the criticism in a follow up video - including her so-called "sexless marriage" and the infamous lack of toilet paper 
 
 
"No, this didn't mean we didn't crap for three days," she says, or that the family used their hands." We used Kleenex, Radke tells her followers, which are more expensive and laced with lotions.
"For three days," she notes, "We crapped like Kings."
And to the troll who asked Radke if her "silly" videos were all she could offer the world.
"I"m just getting started," she says.
 

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