1. Love your kids. 2. Recognise moral bright lines to conduct (i.e., the difference between legitimate frustration and emotional abuse) and your limits. 3. Be consistent, be kind, be on watch for specific signs in the child of abuse occurring outside the home. 4. Grind teeth when you find yourself on the verge of saying BECAUSE I SAID SO, then say it anyway. 5. Love your kids some more. 6. Expect nothing. Take it as it comes. 7. If you find yourself in over your head, ask for help from whatever support you have (locally or otherwise -- if someone close to me but in another state were dealing with an infant, I'd donate cash for a babysitter so that my friend could take a break before imploding). 8. Everyone you meet in the parenting world has an opinion. Remember that your parents probably had sub-optimal parenting themselves, but managed to produce you, and now you're trying to do right by your little one. You're always going to be winging it a little bit. 9. Love your kids, even when they're 13 and demanding independence and screaming about how they can TOTALLY be self-sufficient and don't need you at ALL. 10. The five year rule: anything that seems particularly heinous at the time of occurrence will probably be a funny story in five years (barring major accidents, deaths, abuse, etc.). 11. Your kids choose your nursing home. They also blog. Be kind. 12. The three stages of life: I believe in Santa Claus; I don't believe in Santa Claus; I am Santa Claus. 13. You will find yourself doing things you regret ("GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP!") and also things you never thought possible because of your children. They'll frustrate you at 3, hate you at 13, and love you again at 23. 14. Listen. To their music or their opinions. (Cool story, me: I took my mom rather than my "indie/hipster" BFF to a Magnetic Fields show when I was in my 20s, because my mom listens to CDs I burn her and keeps up with non-top-40 bands that way. Everyone she manages is amazed that she can keep up with their references despite the age gap and I have someone to go to concerts with who wants to enjoy the music over the bar. :D) Thank whatever deity or scientific figure of your choice that Linkin Park has evolved and Limp Bizkit is no longer producing music that is, like, so totally better than the Stones. 15. There are parts of them you will never know -- maybe forever, or maybe just at the time. Adolescents are like that. Children have their own imaginations. If you can't be with them everywhere they go, just enjoy watching their arrivals and departures. 16. Write down the highlights. My father used to record the best of what I said on index cards. Ten years later, I was grateful for his wisdom: I didn't remember my (child) self, but those words were mine. 17. Tell them stories. 18. Ignore school picture day. Take more candids. Body image and snarls of "MOOOOOOOOM" aside, you (and they) will be grateful for the record later. 19. Correlation does not equal causation. You are not omnipotent. Accidents happen. Relax. 19a. On the other hand, if you buy your children white clothing and find yourself upset and shocked that it's stained, you have no one to blame but yourself. 20. They'll forgive you.
lol z. budapest, a transphobic pagan ~elder~ placed a hex on one of her goddess songs "we all come from the goddess". so aparently if u change the lyrcis to it u r hexed.
i hate when people ask about my siblings so much, they're all bad
my brother is a registered pedo but i refuse to speak to him/disowned him but i hate thinking i share genetics with someone like that, especially because of what happened to me when i was young. :(
how come no one every complains about the sanitation of men's genitals? ffs they whip it out to pee and shake it off then shove it right back into their pants. that doesnt sound so clean either, they've probably got pee and smegma all up in their pubes.
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