On parenting and Mother's Day

[kettunainen]

The past few days have been filled with a certain amount of anxiety. Yesterday was Mother's Day, and, while I knew I should call my mom to talk to her, I really didn't want to. She has made zero effort to have any sort of relationship with me since Dec. '05 and has ignored every single email I've sent to her in the interim. In my eyes, she's not

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[andrasta]

I had a conversation with a friend of many years yesterday. She is a teacher of elementary school students.

This is a girl who went from wanting children very badly to realizing that she was not capable of devoting the time it took to be a mother. She saw children whose parents did not teach them manners nor discipline due to lack of time. She made a very hard decision, much like you made with your abortion (only she has never been pregnant) not to have children unless she is completely ready.

Long story short, it makes me proud of my gender when women stand up and realize that breeding is not a right, it is a priviledge.

Knowing what you know, I am certain that you will be a wonderful mother when the time comes. You will have made the choice knowing that you WILL be the best mother your children could have.

[lepke]

thank you for sharing.
*hug*

[tamago23]

Well, you know our feelings on spanking; all it does is make a child resentful and fearful. That's not the way we want to raise Moo.

It's funny, many of the strongest anti-abortion people I've encountered were teen parents. Many of them seem to have this attitude like, "If I did it, then you or anyone else can do it too. And since you CAN do it, it's morally wrong for you to get an abortion instead."

[sgeimh_solais]

I'm totally on board with the being grateful for being away from it all...It's become very brutally clear to me since the maternal kin dinner(s) last Christmas (about which i've not had time to talk to you!! when we getting together???) that i'm not anything like them. I never was. I never could be