955 sats \ 15 replies \ @grayruby 3 Mar \ on: How parenting changed me meta
My friend, remember you don't have to do this stuff, you get to do this stuff. They grow up really fast.
Yes, that’s what I have been telling myself since you told me that last November haha.
The other day, I was whining to my colleague about how my baby girl passed motion in her baby chair. She was having diarrhoea. I told her that “I get to do this”. My boss walked past and said, “Oh that’s not good enough. You need to think ‘I love to do this’”.
Haha.
Thanks for reinforcing your message
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My mom is one of those bizarre people who genuinely seems to love every aspect of taking care of little kids. It's borderline inhuman.
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My wife is awesome. I never minded changing diapers or cleaning up spit up but the explosive diarrhea I usually had to tag her in for. Not always, if she was out of sleeping then you gotta do what you gotta do, but I would freeze up and just stare and say "it's everywhere" and not know where to start. Haha.
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I would freeze up and just stare and say "it's everywhere" and not know where to start
Oh yeah, that takes me back. That was usually our shared reaction: just sort of staring at it and being completely unsure where to start.
My wife is definitely the one who rises to the occasion when poop needs to be touched, like when there's a turd in the bath and someone needs to act fast before it gets on the kid.
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Your should have kept the sentence at:
My friend, remember you don't have to do this stuff.
Neither does the child.
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I'm not sure how you meant the comment, but when you say, you get to do it. I would take this as, you are the one who's doing the homework as much as them
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Here's one of the issues and as you can tell I have a big issue with homework, especially for preschoolers.
Your valuable free time with your child is being taken up with doing homework. This isn't a subject that you've chosen but the school, the state, the government.
Your free time should be yours and your child's, free to play and have fun. This is social conditioning and control and it starts at such a young age now.
Obviously home education (or freedom education, a bit like freedom money) is the answer but not everyone is in a position to home educate.