Having kids makes you thick : )
I think part of my regression can also be put down to the fact that I have to help my children with their homework and when I say their homework I meant work set by the teacher that needs input from the parent!! (another thing that gets my goat!)
That annoys me to, it's like all of a sudden any difficulty your child may be having at school is down to you rather than heaven forbid, their bad teaching. hmmmm and another thing while I'm here on my box.. when I go to open days and read the reports on my kids, it's all formulated little sentences aimed at explaining that they as teachers are doing all that they can, like a long check list of things they have to have done, tick, tick, tick, right we've done all that, if the child isn't preforming at the standard set by someone in government who sat down and listened to a comity that read a load of figures, they its quite obviously not our fault, must be the parents. and yet when I ask them directly how is my child doing, it's oh wonderful, no problem.
The two don't correlate. Everyone is worried about covering their own backs in case something goes wrong, which is all very good except nothing much really gets done.
I think I'm turning into Victor Meldrew. : ) (scary)
I took a cycle ride into Bangor today (it's my nearest town really) to restock on some essentials, herbs and spices mainly from Julian Graves. While I was there I notices in the bargain bin some rice cakes and I thought, I'll try them, so I got them.
Later at home I was unpacking my bag after having collected the kids and I gave them a couple each and seeing as they were spraying crumbs around the kitchen I told them to go outside and make a mess there instead. As my four year old daughter was walking through the back door she said to her brother, 'I think we're eating cardboard'
Just made me laugh as basically she is completely right, they do. The world through the eyes of a child, lets cut through the crap and get to the point here, these taste like cardboard : )
I remember doing the Slimming World a few years ago and one very low cal food was a crispbread thing called Scan Bran...it tasted like a carpet tile. No wonder people lost weight!
Having kids may not make you thick but there is certainly a thing called maternal amnesia (as Blusey and I have found :? ) After giving birth, one of the hormones floating around the mother's system has a "forgetting" effect. I always suspected it was so that you would forget how awful the birth was and be prepared to have another child at some point ;)
However, I remember in the early days in particular, I had some spectacular incidents. Once I went to the local shops and when I returned, found I had put an egg on to boil before going out and it had exploded on the ceiling. Another time, I left my boy sitting playing surrounded by cushions (so he must have been about 6 months?), anyway I went up to the loo, got disracted by a chore so stayed up there a little while, came down again, opened the lounge door (where he was still sitting playing) and jumped out my skin and said "who are you?"
Thankfully things have improved since then!
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You're both so funny!!
My daughter loved rice cakes. 8-)
My daughter loved rice cakes
Mine was secretly feeding them to the dog, coming back in for more and then going back out to the dog : )
Having kids may not make you thick but there is certainly a thing called maternal amnesia (as Blusey and I have found :? ) After giving birth, one of the hormones floating around the mother's system has a "forgetting" effect. I always suspected it was so that you would forget how awful the birth was and be prepared to have another child at some point
I suspect that that forgetful thing might also have something to do with just having kids and all the millions of things you suddenly have to start doing. I became forgetful and confused and as my wife would quite frequently remind me, I didn't actually give birth to them, no! apparently it was just my fault : )
I went from care free wandering hippy, whos only worry was to remember to sign on every two weeks, to organized dad! Just the simple act of going to the shop to get some milk when you have a six month old and a year and a half old and you need the organizational skills of Scot of the Antarctic.
My theory is that all this parenting thing lies dormant somewhere in your head, left there by being on the receiving end of it for so many years as a kid, teenager and then suddenly when you're thrown in at the deep end it all slots into place, no doubt after years of subconscious repression : )
Hi Corrine
I know what you mean about adverts. Just remember they are trying to sell a product and are therefore "selling" an idealised version of a relationship. I always felt like that when I listened to Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs. I had no idea the world was full of so many ideal lovers! :lol: I have always wanted to write in and ask for a request for all singletons.
Gosh, your daughter has a real gift there! I am going to keep my head down in case one of those raspberries comes my way :D BTW maybe we could ALL take a leaf out of your daughter's book and decide who we would like to blow a raspberry at? In my case it is the blokes who have been putting new lamp posts down my street this week. I don't have net curtains and feel as if I am in a goldfish bowl....and the noise is really annoying....and the new post obscures my eyeline out of the window....so here's a big PPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
Hi Corinne
I am so glad you have found us and I hope that you lose the feeling that you are the only single parent in the world....did you know 1 in 4 families is head by a single parents, there are thousands of us around!!
I agree with Louise about the adverts, the idealised family life is NOT real, I have mentioned before on another post, but when my daughter was smaller and I used to take her to infants ALL the parents seemed to have amazingly wealthy and happy lives, but it was only one evening after a performance and the wine had been flowing, I realised that I was the lucky one, they were trapped in loveless marriages, builders taking ages putting up partition walls, partners having affairs, living beyond their means, having to go skiing every other half term and they hated it! Oh poor them, I began to love and cherish my life and was able to walk around the playground from then on in feeling proud and in control of all my decisions! :D
Gosh I cannot be held responsible for any temporary stress incontinence!!!! :lol:
But it just goes to show what a big challenge having children is for us all.....
Louise i almost peed at your post about the egg!!
I'm not really sure i can count myself in the pregnancy brain thickness as i am naturally blonde and was already dim before i got pregnant ... I love my blonde moments! Although in general i think i have escaped that pregnancy thickness. My mum claims it wouldn't have made any difference to me anyways :lol:
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Yes, that's right, just blame US :roll: ( :lol: :lol: :lol: )
Did he have an accident, or did you notice in time? This will show the true depth of the thickness!
Thanks! Made me laugh and think about my position!! I must say that my ex has gone on to produce 1 1/2 more little contributions to the world (the 1/2 being due soon) and now between him and his girlfreind they will have 5 offspring... THICK AS 2 SHORT PLANKS! LOL!
I put my forgetfulness down to my kids and having a "pregnacy brain" right from the start and it never being able to recover!! From finding the teapot in the fridge to a mobile phone in the washing machine... post wash... I can only retain a certain amount of information now and my kids know that if I don't write it down I will forget that it is little Billys birthday party today or a school assembly that I need to be at!! Big thumbs up to all those that have gone on to complete University / college after having children :D
I think part of my regression can also be put down to the fact that I have to help my children with their homework and when I say their homework I meant work set by the teacher that needs input from the parent!! (another thing that gets my goat!) .. I never have and I dare say never will use or be able to spell the words "Nonogenarian" or "Octogenarian" (that was for a year 3 spelling test!) Answers on a post card please :lol: