Okay, I know Jeff Boutler is serious (well, half serious anyway) with this post on his blog, but I gotta tell ya - I started giggling so much, I nearly choked on my hot chocolate. He starts out:

I really don’t understand parents.

When I tell other people that have kids that we’re expecting our first kid any day now, the first thing they tell me how “great” it is. The second thing they tell me, with silly grins on their faces, is their horror stories about when their kid was born, getting no sleep and cleaning up all sorts of messes. Huh? Cleaning + stress + sleep deprivation != “great”.

So I have to assume that having a kid is great for other reasons, which people are generally very vague about. Is it that parents are delusional? Do kids activate some kind of mental disorder that makes being a slave to another human pleasurable?

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ROFL. How do you explain kids and the affect they have on you? Please, somebody go help this guy out with an encouraging comment or two.

Hmm. Should we tell him how much fun homeschooling can be, too?

On second thought, Nahhh. Give the guy a year or so.

Tags: parenting | unschooling