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I believe the pie chart is valid only for those who genuinely enjoy parenting lifestyle and watching kids’ milestones… Plenty of people out there whose percentages are severely skewed one way or the other. For me personally parenting life seems completely unattractive, but I’m in the minority I guess…
Only a “few” years late, but I only saw this tonight. Jeff, that was a most awesome, true-to-heart writing of your feelings. Super.
I do have to admit though, when I saw a few posts saying that as of Feb (2012) you wouldn’t be writing anything in this blog, I thought they were wrong. Isn’t it odd that your first post was your only post?
Anyway, it’s now been several years and I’m sure the twins are now at the point of switching between playing nice together and fighting over a toy both want to play with. And big brother sitting there with a smirk on his face - learned from dad?
Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your post. My wife and I have two children who gave us 4 grandchildren… our son has 3 girls, now 7, 5 and 2. I think we spend more time up there than we do at home. It’s still great to be around the little ones, saddening when it’s time for us to leave. So that feeling one gets from those precious little ones never leaves… just gets better.
I also laughed out loud at some of the posts others made… had to read them to my wife. The only thing I missed was your graph. There’s only a broken link icon showing for me. Bummer.
WIshing you, the missus and all three of your children the best. Have fun together and enjoy each day. The years do indeed fly by much too fast.
I’m glad I decided to re-read this topic, especially the full first post. I laughed out loud several times. It also reminded me of my wife telling our two (now adult) children, “Don’t make me a grandmother before I’m 40.” Our daughter had our grandson when my wife was 38. She didn’t listen, thankfully. Our son, on the other hand, waited until my wife was 42. Now we have 4 grandchildren.
It was an experience watching (spoiling) our grandchildren - just as much as we did with our own two. Did I mention we had two children? Yeah, our daughter came out small and our son was a bit larger. According to my wife, they were humongous! .
Our grandson is 28 and has been a military police for 4-1/2 years, so we don’t see him for over a year at a time. But our 3 granddaughters? They live just over the top of the hill from us so we see them as much as we want (which is as often as possible). The oldest just became a teenager and yes, she hit the rebellious stage already (except when it comes to grandpa ). The middle girl (turning 12 in October) is in the stage of wanting to be with me AND trying to teach me the art of “letting go.” The youngest still wants to be with me constantly and play games, but she has the uncanny ability to “skunk” me when we play memory games. I’m beginning to think she has a photogenic memory.
Hopefully, my wife and I will have the grand pleasure of being around for the birth of our first (and more) great-grandchildren.
I did just buy two books, “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” (The How To Talk Series) by Adele Faber. Also, to pick up a few pointers, “How to Talk to Humans” by Chad T. Dyar. I guess a 72-year-old can still learn a few tricks.
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). The middle girl (turning 12 in October) is in the stage of wanting to be with me AND trying to teach me the art of “letting go.” The youngest still wants to be with me constantly and play games, but she has the uncanny ability to “skunk” me when we play memory games. I’m beginning to think she has a photogenic memory.