When Life Beats You Down
August 24, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Finances, Mental Health
Let’s not pretend that parenting is easy, OK? Life, work, marriage, money, and other people still have to be dealt with and those things, wow, they can bruise.
When life hurts, it’s probably a good idea to just sit and hug your baby for five minutes. I could use a good cuddle myself.
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] I blame mothering blogs like this one for driving men back to their professions. We’ve been too successful. We’ve cleared the mystique. It was engineered like a smokescreen to make life seem full of cuddles and uninterrupted bliss. Instead, we have shown blog readers – some of whom are men – that life with children is often full of crying, domestic drudgery and other less attractive stuff. And, what’s more, we’ve ruined that idea that tomorrow, or tha day after that might return us to something less exhausting. Sometimes, I would give anything to just go hide in a nice office for eight or nine hours, eat in a cafeteria and then get to be everyone’s favourite playmate when I come home. It would really beat the acrobatics I have to do in order to squeeze 8 working hours out of 24 parenting hours. Technorati Tags: Changing attitudes toward working fathers and mothers August 24th, 2006 | Permalink | No Comments » [...]