Comments on The Elmo Wallpaper: Get OVER it already.

Amen. I would write more if I weren't wranglin...

2012-01-18T04:08:34.481-08:00

Amen. I would write more if I weren't wrangling three tiny kids toward their respective days and then work from home. It is all hard. Impossibly hard. Thank you for this.

I agree that it is such a tired question. But I do...

2012-01-08T06:43:55.025-08:00

I agree that it is such a tired question. But I don't think it will go away because (I think) that competitive response to parenting is a DIRECT result of the lack of support you mention in your last paragraph. We turn on each other because we feel thrown to the wolves and so we act like...well...wolves. The level of difficulty, in my opinion, hits many of us like a bomb and is utterly unanticipated. Not the physical act of parenting, which is hard enough. But all the other stuff which COULD be made better if, as you say, we banded together and "used our powers for good." I am all for that.

I was about to write Lindsey's exact comment a...

2012-01-07T16:47:24.785-08:00

I was about to write Lindsey's exact comment as I clicked over to leave my own. This is insane. How can you possibly narrow down a life situation to whether or not a mom works outside of the home? And why does it even matter? Does it make anyone feel better to say their life is so much harder? Does it make the work more valuable? Does it mean your children love you more? Why do we keep asking all the wrong questions and poiting fingers and playing the victim? I completely agree with you!!

Yep. 100% agreed. And this post is why we need YOU...

2012-01-06T06:34:48.620-08:00

Yep. 100% agreed. And this post is why we need YOU writing.

Sure love you.

looking for pink things. I'm going to write you a long beautiful letter on bringing a girl into a houseful of boys.

I couldn't agree more. It's so tired, so u...

2012-01-05T18:37:11.823-08:00

I couldn't agree more. It's so tired, so unproductive. I also think there's something here about the general human need to win the who's-a-bigger-victim fight. What's that about?