In case you didn't know. Having a little rant here, internally. I recently moved to an area in which the accepted practice when one has a child is to hire a nanny. (A local parents' network has questions like, "Do I need a live-in nanny for a newborn?") The nanny will then raise that child for you while you continue about your career or events or whatever it is that you do other than being with your babies.
This is utterly bizarre, to me. If you told somebody you were thinking about getting a dog, but that you had no time to take care of it and would never be home, so you were going to hire someone to look after it, people would wonder what the point of getting a dog was in the first place. But kids? No, kids are fine, no real parents necessary.
This is just sort of exploding in my brain right now because I actually started a mom's group specifically for mothers of young children who are the primary caretakers. I put few restrictions on the group, not even imagining that someone would join and then want to BRING HER "HELPER" ALONG to meet everyone else.
Excuse moi?
Pardon me while I go look for my sanity.
This is utterly bizarre, to me. If you told somebody you were thinking about getting a dog, but that you had no time to take care of it and would never be home, so you were going to hire someone to look after it, people would wonder what the point of getting a dog was in the first place. But kids? No, kids are fine, no real parents necessary.
This is just sort of exploding in my brain right now because I actually started a mom's group specifically for mothers of young children who are the primary caretakers. I put few restrictions on the group, not even imagining that someone would join and then want to BRING HER "HELPER" ALONG to meet everyone else.
Excuse moi?
Pardon me while I go look for my sanity.