WOH and sleeping issues
Find a Conversation
WOH and sleeping issues
| Sun, 05-22-2005 - 10:34am |
We were at a dinner party last night at the home of one of dh's coworkers. They have 2 boys, 6 and 4. They have a bunch of sleeping issues (kids 'scared' at night, won't fall asleep in their own bed, won't go to bed without mom or dad cuddling them, etc.) The mom blames herself because since she works all day and misses them so much she tends to cuddle with them late at night and they fall asleep in a pile on the bed all together. She said that if she SAH, they wouldn't have the same issues.
I sah. For us, bed time is a rigid, welcome respite at the end of the day. Dh has no desire to keep them up either, lol.

Pages
Your analogy is fine. But how come it doesn't apply to your mother? How is it your mother knows better than they do what people do and don't really like? Shouldn't she not be making people feel stupid for liking 2YOs?
Is there a reason I'm supposed to want to feel younger? Is there a reason I don't really want a baby?
ITA with both you and Dogma. And QM. Why is it so hard to admit that Something Is Wrong?
I was the opposite of PNJ when I had my first son. I was so prepared for difficulty, so braced for the hardship of it all, that it took me far too long to realize that it was much, much harder than it was supposed to be. I expected nursing to be difficult, but it took me much too long to realize that our nursing experience was particularly hard, clinically hard, hard to the point where I should have been running to the doctor.
Whe something really is wrong, "suck it up" and "don't anybdy dare imply that she's not doing it right" can be two sides of the same coin of denial.
Yes, thats the difference imo. The people I know who are childfree do not want children. If they did, they'd have had them (either naturally or via adoption)
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
Amend your last sentence to "life with small children," and the answer would be, at times, yes!
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Pages