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“Just you wait until you have kids of your own,” my aunt chided softly, but ever-so-surely, “You will lose this ammunition you have for all your little side-projects.”
I looked at my her quizzically and asked, “Why do you act as though the person stops being, learning or growing simply because they become a parent?”
“Because they do,” she snapped back, with the confidence only a boomer can exhibit, “like I said, when you have kids, you will stop doing so damn much.”
I wish I could say that she said all of this while chain-smoking, with hot rollers in her hair, but that is simply not true. Though this story did not have the Hollywood flair that I would have liked it to have, but the impact was just the same.
One thing which is true about this story is how much parents blame their children for their own shortfallings.
Honestly, I was really nervous when I started preparing to write this article, but I really do feel that this a discussion we all need to be having.
When an individual, who happens to have children, does not…
