So, I got a little off track with this topic in my original post, I figured I should continue it here.
I have a separate theme prepared in my head, regarding Facebook, but I'm going to address a small portion of that, here.
I'm sure that many of you already have Facebook pages, and, if any of you are Mothers, you will likely be guilty of the transgressions I am about to discuss.
When I open my Facebook page, apart from the various requests for 3 bricks to build someone's henhouse, a pig heart for someone else's Satanic temple, and the announcement that someone has created the word "ho" in WWF, this is what I am bombarded with:
"OMG, today Johnny ate his first Cheerio, I'm sooo XCITED!"
"LOL, here's a picture of our Wendy sitting on the lawn in her pink dress. Isn't that soooo awesome!!???"
"I'm so proud to say that Jaleel stopped sucking his thumb today, and won the "I'm a Big Kid!" award at daycare! He's growing up!! I'm so proud!!!!!!!"
"Today, our Sasha got her first training bra! It was a big day for our family, we celebrated and went out to eat!"
"HAHA, here's a picture of our Wendy sitting on the lawn in her blue dress. Isn't that soooo awesome!!!??"
All I can say is, what the hell is wrong with these people? You're telling me that your life is so ridiculously mundane that the most exciting thing (ever!!!!!!) to post about is a f-cking training bra? I'm sorry to tell you this, but this crap is boring, and you need to get a life.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
This hurts me more than it's going to hurt you.....
In continuing on the theme of Motherhood, I think I should mention that, along with the "What to Expect When You're Expecting" book, there should be another book (maybe I'll write it), concerning the "psychology" of Motherhood, that all prospective Moms should have on their nightstand.
Now, this is not going to be about physical punishment of children, as the title may imply. Rather, it is about that funny thing that clicks in your head once you cross over from being a normal person to being a crazed and confused (at times) parent. Since it is mostly illegal and likely fruitless to beat our children senseless, we are forced to become the emotional switch-bearers in their quest to learn about life.
I used to say that anyone can physically take care of a child... you may not be a pro, but you (or any primate... or wolves...) understand that your baby needs to be fed, should have his/her diapers changed regularly, and can't be left out in the rain for extended periods of time. It's not the physical part that is difficult, even if you have only had 3 hours of sleep within a 72 hour period. It's the mental part.
Once you get past the sleepless days, and teething, and learning to walk, and terrible two's, and the first day of school, you enter into a new phase, when your child starts making his/her own decisions about his life and his surroundings.
I never really understood the whole 'this hurts me more' thing, until I became a parent. I'm pretty sure that no one, ever, will understand that phrase, until becoming a parent. I'm guessing that teachers kind of get this, too, to some extent. It is a proven fact that kids, most definitely, do not get it.
Now, this is not going to be about physical punishment of children, as the title may imply. Rather, it is about that funny thing that clicks in your head once you cross over from being a normal person to being a crazed and confused (at times) parent. Since it is mostly illegal and likely fruitless to beat our children senseless, we are forced to become the emotional switch-bearers in their quest to learn about life.
I used to say that anyone can physically take care of a child... you may not be a pro, but you (or any primate... or wolves...) understand that your baby needs to be fed, should have his/her diapers changed regularly, and can't be left out in the rain for extended periods of time. It's not the physical part that is difficult, even if you have only had 3 hours of sleep within a 72 hour period. It's the mental part.
Once you get past the sleepless days, and teething, and learning to walk, and terrible two's, and the first day of school, you enter into a new phase, when your child starts making his/her own decisions about his life and his surroundings.
I never really understood the whole 'this hurts me more' thing, until I became a parent. I'm pretty sure that no one, ever, will understand that phrase, until becoming a parent. I'm guessing that teachers kind of get this, too, to some extent. It is a proven fact that kids, most definitely, do not get it.
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