Comments on: I keep wanting to go back

By: suz

suz — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:46:31 +0000

Do you do them WRONG? Or not as well as you could? Is it a glass half full or half empty thing?

I doubt you do them wrong but could believe you could things better.

I dont believe mother hood is about right or wrong. It is about being the best mother and person you can be and sometimes that times work and a few tries.

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We’re Supposed to do Things Right? | Sundays with Stretchy Pants — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:33:43 +0000

[...] trip is hard. Dawn is right when she says other parents make all the difference in the world. We need other parents who can be open and honest about the struggles in their [...]

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:35:11 +0000

So nice meeting you today…. Let’s do it again

By: chanie

chanie — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:24:44 +0000

i have a group of women that i meet with regularly and the meetings always open with a question. last month it was “what do you like about yourself?” (which we expanded to include “what are you good at?”)
we all realized that it would have been a lot easier to come up with an answer if the question had been the opposite - what do you not like, or what are you not good at. and decided that it was a little sad that that’s true.

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:10:27 +0000

But here’s the thing–and you know I’m not one to stroke for the sake of stroking–to be able to say what you do wrong is to, once again, be a good parent. Now that I deal with the consequences of truly terrible parenting every day, I have completely lost patience with the “bad mother” trope (that’s critique of the culture, not you).

And I totally agree about the importance of other parents–hung out with some of mine at an event at school last night, and was, as always, so grateful for them.