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Teeter Totter ~ Finding a Balance Between Me-Hood and Motherhood
Gender: female Date of Birth: January 01, 1973 Member Since: September 11, 2007 Last Signed In: November 20, 2009 Blog Views: 14722 Send To A Friend Sign Guestbook Add as a Friend
Growing That Acorn
Faith Need vs Want A Tight Budget Holiday The Play Priority Disney’s A Christmas Carol – A Mom Review Making it Easy on Yourself When It Rains… You Are Here Halloween with Older Kids September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 Teeter Totter Finding a Balance Between "Me-Hood" and "Motherhood" In this blog I'll be covering as wide a variety of subjects as the duties of a real mom in today's culture. From raising special needs children, family vacations, marriage, relationships, sex, cooking, local to-do, school (both for you and the children), working, hiring a daycare provider, arts and crafts, decorating, holidays, to well... EVERYTHING! No holding back. 
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Stranger Support
Do you ever have the feeling that you get more support from strangers than your own family? Nothing made this hunch ring true for me more than when I had my son. No one in my family had ever breast fed, in fact, my proud proclamation of my intent on doing so wasn’t exactly met with the whole hearted support I had anticipated. In fact, what I heard were words like, “But! You’ll RUIN your breasts!” “That’s SOOO old fashioned!” “Why would you WANT to do that?!” It wouldn’t be the first time I’d hit the “unsupportive family” roadblock where parenting was concerned. Having your proclamations fall on deaf or unsupportive ears is one reason why “Parenting Groups” (such as this one), are so vital. Ever notice how you can join pretty much any kind of parenting group on any kind of topic in Sacramento? Raising a special needs child? There’s a group for every disorder and disease. Single lesbian parent? Yep, there’s a group for that. Grandparents raising grandchildren while the parents are in jail or rehab? Yup, gotcha covered. Personally I think this kind of “stranger support” is beyond amazing. Forming your own safe group of people who can listen to each other and help each other is a survival skill that we still need. Thanks for being my “stranger support” and giving me back some confidence in people to do the right thing after my political rant. How have strangers supported you? 0 comments from 0 users
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