Parenting fatigue...anyone ever experience such a thing? About This Page:

[debsta922]

Blissfully Happy??? Sometimes... like right when he falls asleep and he looks so innocent and sweet... Nick is such a 2 year old. Everything is no,no,no... He can drive me insane, but then 2 seconds later he smiles at me with his big Nicholas smile and I just melt. Being a mom is tough, but you do need to find some time for yourself. I don't think I would ever give up my job as a mom, but sometimes I wish I could be the dad. I wouldn't have to do the majority of the household chores, the cooking and the disciplining... I would get a break when I came home from work, get to play with the boys, and then get to chill out while someone else puts them to bed.... ahhh what a life... (and I'm really not putting my dh down, he is wonderful with the boys, but it does seem that he gets to think about himself first sometimes... a treat that I haven't had since I got pregnant.)

[kadterp]

Oh please! Im stressed out every day! Im totally stressed when the kids are sick and throwing up! Oh ewww!! Some days are better than others, but I just hang in there and plan a trip to Disney World hahahahaha and when I cant do that, I just try to get away for the day or hour to myself! When that doesnt work, I just go in my own bedroom! Hang in there!!

[disneyfan4994]

I definately feel like I have parent fatigue. I work full time so 4 year old DS is in day care & 10 year old DS just started 5th grade last week. 10 year old DS has ADHD & we knew this year was going to be tough because he starts to switch classes & has to remember to take all his stuff to every class, very hard for him. Anyway he has been in school 6 days & has 4, count 'em 4, demerits already. 3 for excessive talking & 1 for forgetting to take all his stuff to class when they switched. It's gonna be a long year. I love the boys & would never trade them for the world, but somedays are definately more overwhelming than others. Hang in there Dawn.

[Courtney]

Blissfully happy over here! Of course, I've been a parent for less than 3 months...gimme some time!!

But currently, I can't get enough of this kid, and am reveling in parental bliss.

[Loster]

I love reading all of this. I know that I am "normal" as a mother of 2. And just today my husband told me that I don't have a job.
I really hate that.

Sue

[Taleena]

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And just today my husband told me that I don't have a job.

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I'd love to see your husband do what we stay-at-home moms do every day and then say you don't have a job. In fact, check out this email that a friend sent me just a few days ago. It's great!

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A woman named Emily was renewing her driver's license at the Clerk's office. She was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself.

"What I mean is," explained the recorder, "do you have a job, or are you just ...?"

"Of course I have a job," snapped Emily. "I'm a mother."

"We don't list 'mother' as an occupation ~ 'housewife' covers it", said the recorder emphatically.

I forgot all about Emily's story until one day I found myself in the same situation at our Town Hall.

The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like, "Official Interrogator" or "Town Registrar."

"What is your occupation?" she probed.

What made me say it, I do not know... the words simply popped out. "I'm a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations."

The clerk paused, ball-point pen frozen in midair, and looked up as though she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly, emphasizing the most significant words. Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written in old, black ink on the official questionnaire.

"Might I ask," said the clerk with new interest, "just what you do in your field?"

Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice, I heard myself reply, "I have a continuing program of research (what mother doesn't) in the laboratory and in the field (normally I would have said indoors and out).

"I'm working for my Masters (the whole darned family) and already have four credits (all daughters). Of course the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities, (any mother care to disagree?) and I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money."

There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk's voice as she completed the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door.

As I drove into our driveway, buoyed by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants ~ ages 13, 7, and 3. Upstairs I could hear our new experiment (a 6- month old baby) in the child-development program, testing out a new vocal pattern.

I felt triumphant! I had scored a beat on bureaucracy! And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than "just another mother."

Motherhood ~ What a glorious career! Especially when there's a title on the door.

Does this make:

Grandmothers ~ Senior Research Associates in the field of Child Development and Human Relations?"

Great grandmothers ~ "Executive Senior Research Associates?"

I think so!!!

Aunts: ~ "Associate Research Assistants."