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Apr. 5th, 2005 05:55 pmI have realized that I have a lot of opinions on childrearing for someone who has never borne a child. There's a reason for that. I mean specifically: there's a reason that I don't have a child. I do herbal medicine. After any unprotected sex I take herbs to keep implantation from occurring. I have a huge family who are more than happy to contribute to the cause of overpopulating the Earth.
I've babysat and studied child development and taken care of babies, small children, teens, preteens, drug users who act like teens, and I used to math tutor a guy who got kicked in the head by a horse. I have a lot of opinions because I've had a lot of experiences with different elder/youth attachment dynamics. And I do that thing that sets me so far apart from the people who criticize my childless opinion-having: I think about my experiences, and draw insight from them.
That in no way means that my opinions won't change further if I ever have to raise a child. But I would be a better parent than most of my friends' parents. Not that that says much. I'm tired of a certain few people thinking I have no right to an opinion because I've never been stupid enough to get knocked up before I was ready and willing to raise a kid.
I'm dealing with a lot of fuckheadedness lately. Not on this one issue, oh, no. This was just the one wandering through my head when I sat down to journal me some journal. (Does that make me a journalist? And since I sometimes do research and then post links and facts in here that I find, does that make me an investigative journalist? Damn. I'm Clark Kent. I have the "say something that fucks up a relationship totally" superpower and the adjacent "people forgive me for no reason" superpower. Yay.)
I could totally use some advice from a helpful deity or two on my lifepath, but instead I am just going to get a few readings of various things and puzzle it out myself.
And in other news, I'm considering making anti-ghost bracelets and sending them to people who need them. If you know anyone who could benefit from the dead's antipathy to all things me, let me know. I'll hook you up - no strings.
I've babysat and studied child development and taken care of babies, small children, teens, preteens, drug users who act like teens, and I used to math tutor a guy who got kicked in the head by a horse. I have a lot of opinions because I've had a lot of experiences with different elder/youth attachment dynamics. And I do that thing that sets me so far apart from the people who criticize my childless opinion-having: I think about my experiences, and draw insight from them.
That in no way means that my opinions won't change further if I ever have to raise a child. But I would be a better parent than most of my friends' parents. Not that that says much. I'm tired of a certain few people thinking I have no right to an opinion because I've never been stupid enough to get knocked up before I was ready and willing to raise a kid.
I'm dealing with a lot of fuckheadedness lately. Not on this one issue, oh, no. This was just the one wandering through my head when I sat down to journal me some journal. (Does that make me a journalist? And since I sometimes do research and then post links and facts in here that I find, does that make me an investigative journalist? Damn. I'm Clark Kent. I have the "say something that fucks up a relationship totally" superpower and the adjacent "people forgive me for no reason" superpower. Yay.)
I could totally use some advice from a helpful deity or two on my lifepath, but instead I am just going to get a few readings of various things and puzzle it out myself.
And in other news, I'm considering making anti-ghost bracelets and sending them to people who need them. If you know anyone who could benefit from the dead's antipathy to all things me, let me know. I'll hook you up - no strings.