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May 3, 2006, 5:09 pm PDT
 Quote From: sunriver
Why does everyone who has screwed up their kids resort to old cliche " Nobody's perfect. Kids don't come with manuals." ???? For God's sake, if you've never changed a diaper, given a kid a bath, or been responsible for feeding and putting a child to bed, then you don't have any business having one of your own!!!!
Don't teenagers babysit anymore? Don't kids help take care of younger siblings anymore? Doesn't anyone volunteer to watch the children of their friends, siblings and other relatives?
If you've never done any of these things ( I did all of them between the ages of 10 and 20, and became a parent at the ripe old age of 21 knowing that I was fully prepared. ) then you must be a VERY self-centered person, and are probably not mature enough to handle parenthood. And if you are still determined to become a parent despite knowing nothing of how to handle a child, then I suggest that you sign up for a parenting class at your local church or community center or community college or welfare agency. Because no child deserves to be your social experiment. Wow...wrong... I never did any of these things. I never changed a diaper, babysat, fed a baby, bathed a baby or been responsible for a baby in my ENTIRE LIFE. I'm FAR from self centered. I just never really had the opportunity to any of that stuff. There are no little kids in my family near me. None of my friends had younger siblings that I ever had anything to do with and I never had any interest in babysitting when I was a teen. I think I held 2 babies before I had my own...LOL I am, if I do say so myself, a fabulous mother! My daughter is 2 now, healthy, happy and smart. You are completely wrong. Completely. I learned along the way to change diapers and give baths. I called my mom and my MIL when I had questions but raising a baby isn't really all that hard. LOL What IS important when deciding to have a kid is having an idea of how you will raise them. No one really cares about diaper changes and baths. That silly stuff is easily figured out. Sure I knew nothing about having a baby, but I had a nest prepared and I had a husband who I had discussed parenting with at length, for YEARS ahead of time. So, please, don't call people selfcentered and immature simply because they have never handled a baby before. Like I said, I was 25 before I really handled a baby. I'm neither of those things. |
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