Excellent!
Being a mom might be everything described, but I can never romanticize motherhood. My mother abandoned me when I was about 10 months old. As a result, my ill-equipped father first placed me with one relative and stranger after another until I was old enough to be put in boarding school where I stayed until graduating high school. All the time growing up, I never heard so much as a single word from my mother. I didn’t even know she was alive until my father died and I notified the only relatives on her side that I knew. Not all women are good mothers. The only thing some mothers give their children is lifelong hurt.
I wonder why the author’s daughter isn’t a mother, and why she felt the need to point out her degrees and successful career as opposed to being “just a mom”, and if the daughter is so tearful and upset about it why not quit her job and be “just a mom”. Sorry, but I’ve had far too many conversations like this with childless, successful women who just like being snobs while being “so sorry”. Guess it hit a nerve. :/
A couple weeks ago, I was in contact with someone I used to work with, some over 30 years ago. As I was updating him on my life, I got a little wistful, of “where had all of the time gone?”, and feeling like I had not been as “successful” somehow, as we had both expected. Then looked back over the years of raising my kids, mostly on my own, while working full time, keeping food on the table, a good home for them, and attending all their school events, teacher conferences, sporting events, etc. And now they are 28 and 32, both college grads, both have excellent careers, never in trouble... And started thinking I was maybe a lot more “successful” than my earlier evaluation.
Beautifully said. No one can replace a mother, just as no one can replace a father. God knew what he was doing. On a side note, nothing can replace a fungus—had to get that in!
Exactly. It is how Lenin destroyed generations of people, by forcing women into the workforce so they could be totally controlled and their little children would bond with the State (and turn in their parents if they didn’t “think” correctly.)
The Prussian schools-—and all preschools were designed to destroy normal mind integration and intellectual growth (no Davy Crocketts are possible in such a artificially controlled system which destroys agency) and to create an efficient system where they could destroy the integration of the brain (free will/individualism) for a socialized brain—one which will fear disagreeing with the herd. They will NEVER state the TRUTH for fear of the mob mentality (snowflake brownshirts).
They have done NUMEROUS studies on the minds of young children and the stress that ALWAYS results when removed from the Natural family before the age of 8. Only a few hours a week-—and ONLY with people you completely TRUST to not traumatize and bully your kids until the age of reason (around 7) when they will NOT internalize the trauma-—they will be able to handle themselves-—but NEVER in the Prussian school with mass indoctrination where they are totally outnumbered and helpless.
“The hand that rocks the cradle,
Moves the World”
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A few years back I got flamed to a crisp for saying things like that here.
Looks like the times they are a’changin’ — back.
