You know, when you decide to make the plunge into parenthood, there's likely some hidden expectation about what having kids was going to do for you. I think I had some weird romantic notion about becoming a gentle earth mother serenely rocking my sleeping infant as I finally understood all the mysteries of the universe. Of course, I now look back on my child's infancy and can count the serene moments on zero fingers. I mean, really. Colic. Sigh. The only mystery I wrestled with was how any one child could make such a horrific noise for so damn long.
Anyhow, I thought of this when I read this excellent post on the Alpha Mummy blog, which I clearly liked alot. She lists some great benefits of parenting, like realizing that everything in the whole world is a phase (we'll even be able to say goodbye to Crocs one day!), and developing a work ethic that would make the driven pre-kid you look like a total slouch. So anyhow, what did you get out of becoming a parent?
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