We are on day (...) of your life, and I want to clock out and go to the pub!
When people have children they tell you it’s the best thing you’ll ever do, the most memorable years of your life, what they don’t tell you is that those years all blend into one and if you’re as lucky as I am you wake up one day with a 3 year old as your bed companion, for the foreseeable future!
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to raise a child in a 2 parent household, since we only got to year 1 of your life and we became just us, he was, from time to time, him and you but mainly just him. We’ve had our ups and downs in the past, more ups than downs though, we used to have loads of fun back when you would listen to me. Now that you’re three you’re trying to dictate to me when you eat, what you eat, what you drink, where we go, when you have a bath, when you go to bed and where you sleep. I’m starting to forget if I’m parenting or house sharing!
I look at those families with two parents, sometimes I think how happy that child must be to have both its parents under the same roof. How happy the parents both must be to have someone there to take over when it gets too much, someone to help with the tidying up at the end of the day, or just even bath time so the usual suspect can have their bath later, as planned.
The only problem with these pictures, with these happy endings, is that they aren’t real. People get tired, stressed, no person is perfect and we all lose our minds at some point throughout the day. We all have different ways of parenting, maybe we have similar aspects but we don’t all parent the same. Having a two parent household must incur confliction in that area, at least on my own what I say goes. I may not have someone there to rub my shoulders when my whole body aches with exhaustion, but I do have a well mannered, spirited and free child.
I guess the 'right way' can sometimes be the wrong way...
#singleparenting #wingingit #twoparenthousehold #comparison #getmethedrink
