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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Being a Person Who is Also a Parent

A couple weeks ago I attended friends' baby shower. In the swirl of conversations about everyone becoming parents, I caught up with an old (well perhaps former is a better word than old since she is only four years older than I am) college adviser who happened to be there. She's about 4 years older than me. I asked her if she ever felt pressured by her friends to have kids, since she and her long time boyfriend/partner want to remain child-free. She acknowledged that being surrounded by parents had changed many of her friendships, but not because they were pressuring her to join them. The big culprit: her friends only wanted to talk about their kids. The answer wasn't really surprising to me, because I have friend of that phenomenon in parenting magazines and books.

Right around that time, a friend of mine invited me to take a parenting class she was offering at her family network. It meets once a week for 12 weeks and get this: they provide free childcare and free dinner for both kids and parents. Here's what interested me in it aside from not having to worry about dinner once a week: the class is about a parent's identity as a person.

That's right, it's a class for parents about basically getting to know themselves better. Both the Big Giraffe and I thought it sounded like a good idea so we signed up. Tonight was our first class. I'm pretty excited about this parenting journey.

Of course our next step on our parenting journey may not be in the most enjoyable direction. The hospital called this afternoon to tell us that our younger son (YS) got the first slot for surgery on tomorrow's schedule! That was what we were hoping, for because he's not allowed to eat breakfast. We have to be there at 6 am tomorrow.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Parents are people too.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 8:26 PM   6 comments
6 Comments:

  • At 1/08/2009 11:04 PM, Blogger Kami said…

    Good luck with the surgery tomorrow! I was worried about the eating part too... Jack had his at 10 and he was STARVING by then. No fun.

    I'll be thinking good thoughts for YS, I hope all goes perfectly.

     

  • At 1/09/2009 1:20 AM, Blogger Heather said…

    Good luck tomorrow and in the days following!

     

  • At 1/09/2009 1:07 PM, Blogger Kate said…

    Good luck with the surgery! Both my sons have had surgery at different times and we lucked out with one of them having an early slot, too. Makes it so much easier.

    And on the parenting class, they have one just like that, too here at our local school. I was blown away by the free childcare and dinner thing, too.

     

  • At 1/09/2009 1:50 PM, Blogger soccer mom in denial said…

    Now I see what is going on. Good luck. I'm thinking about you and YS.

    Oh and a dinner/talk about identity outside of being a parent? Where do I sign up?

     

  • At 1/09/2009 2:31 PM, Blogger Trenches of Mommyhood said…

    Thinking of you today - keep us posted on how the surgery went!

     

  • At 1/11/2009 6:50 AM, Blogger Goofball said…

    wow that does sound very interesting

     
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