AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH.

[daywahyn]

I shall try to keep this rant to a minimum. Sort of. I would also like to preface this by saying that the catalyst for my tantrum is so mundane it's almost embarassing.
I AM SO FARKIN' SICK OF NOT HAVING MY SHIT! I WANT MY STUFF. I WANT SOME SPACE. I WANT TO LIVE IN MY GODDAMNED HOUSE WITH MY GODDAMNED STUFF!

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[deviantauthor]

Oh good--you have those moments, too! *g* My husband would have told me I was being bossy, but he picks on me like that. *g*

Okay, with you, it was your stepmom. With me, it was my mother. According to her, when I had the oldest one and was breastfeeding him--mind you, at this point in time, he was three months old at the most--according to her, I was abusing him. Yes, you read correctly. That constituted child abuse, according to that woman. My milk was fabulous and she wanted to accuse me of child abuse? Please. My children's idea of abuse is having electronic crap withheld until their rooms are clean. LOL

I could bitch for a couple of hours about people lacking real parenting skills and how it appears as though most people don't actually parent--they get their spawn to walk and talk and then think said spawn are self-sufficient enough to only have to provide food, shelter and clothes for them until they no longer have to. (And yes, I'm entitled to say such a thing--just last week when studmuffin was interviewing for that job in GA, I took my three into a shop with a LOT of stuff, breakable, etc. and kept a leash on them the entire time. As I was making my purchase, I had a complete stranger walk up to me and comment to me that she wanted to commend my parenting skills and how positively refreshing it was to see someone actively and responsibly parenting their children. I laughed, thanked her and said I had the full backing and support of my studmuffin and that attachment parenting and breastfeeding on demand obviously worked quite well for ours, even though we didn't know what attachment parenting was at the time when they were infants.)

But yes, I have noticed a 'trend' of sorts. Get them to where they are somewhat self-sufficient and then don't deal with them or pay someone else to raise them, be it daycare, putting them into every other organized sport there is or whatever. I'm not saying that every parent parents that way and yes, I'm aware that there are single parents out there who are probably doing a better job raising their offspring than some families with two parents, but overall, that's the trend I seem to be noticing a pattern of.

I think it's called the 'children are fashion accessories and must have one' trend. *rolling eyes*

Yeah, you know, IM me sometime or something. I went through breastfeeding two orclings and typing with one hand, so I can be patient.

Yeah, I'll shut up now that I've probably offended half your readers with my parenting comments which were made before my second cup of coffee. (Keep in mind that the size of my coffee cups equal like a third of a pot of coffee. *g*)

[deviantauthor]

PS--for the record, I did breastfeed all three of the orclings--it's just that with the younger two, we had online access, so that's what I meant when I said I'd been through breastfeeding two of them and typing with one hand.

(Lest you think I'm slightly and charmingly deranged and unable to do simple math by counting how many orclings the studmuffin and I actually have....)