I'm back!
Your friendly neighbourhood blogista is medicated, rested, and ready to write her first book. Help me by reading this blog please!
I've set this goal for myself and I would really appreciate it if I could get my ducks in a row and actually publish.
To all publishers out there: PLEASE SIGN ME!!!!! I'M READY!!!!!
There are a bazillion parenting books out there and most people take them very seriously. This one is satirical but there is an ounce of truth in there that will be helpful for people with or without children.
I've decided to write about raising children in a similar fashion to how our parents were raised. My parents are Baby Boomers and I am a Millennial. I've spoken to many people about the problems with 'kids these days' (i.e. Millennials), and I've come to the conclusion that if the Boomers think their so perfect, that our smoking, drinking, neglectful, lead paint using, grandparents must have done something right.
Our parents are responsible for how we turned out and we seem to be the subject of many editorials about how coddled, disrespectful, and entitled we are. I think my parents did a bang-up job. Really, I was raised in the eighties and nineties and they did the best they could given their resources.
Now that I have a child of my own, and I have evidence of different styles of child-rearing to work with, I am going to write a book about my experiments with being a mid century stay-at-home Mom with a modern edge.
I have lots of research to do so if you know anyone who wants to talk to me about raising children in the 1950s, please get me in contact with them. I pass no judgement. I just want to hear about what it was like so I can experiment.
See ya next post!
1. Since you married my son, I will assume that my parenting was okay!
ReplyDelete2. Your parents were raised by your grandparents.
3. The more perfect we claim to be, the more insecure we are.
4. Everyone is a product of their time and place. No more, no less.
5. Go for it!!
Sorry, more....
ReplyDeleteMy only worry about parenting books is that the author opens herself up to so much hassle. For whatever reason, the subject is emotionally loaded. So many people have such black & white opinions on the matter when it is an topic where there isn't always a right answer. It's very subjective.
But it's also an area where insecurities reign supreme. It is also a subject that seems to bring out the sanctimonious aspects of people's (and unfortunately, especially woman) personalities.
I hope that there is, at the minimum, some good feedback to your blog.
If I sound blunt when you read this, I don't mean to be. It's a function of the way I write which isn't always the way I think.
s/b women's not woman
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