One of the things that I am told constantly during my first year of parenthood is that it will get easier.
What does this mean exactly? Will I get to go on that tropical holiday soon and drink margaritas in the sun? Will Dragon start making me breakfast in bed? Will the gamut of kids stuff clogging our small flat evaporate to be replaced by tasteful decor?
Nada.
I think people aka other parents, tell you it gets easier because that is the thing to say. They are not going to say:
Actually it doesn't get easier. It just changes but there will always be something you are worried about.
A friend once said to me that the early years of child rearing is physically exhausting. Later on when they are older, it becomes emotionally exhausting. She said that she found the latter much harder.
Hooray for her honesty.
Because I haven't found that it gets easier. It changes. Your expectations change. You get used to the physical drudgery and the toll it takes. You shift ever so gradually into parenthood. You begin to get a glimmer of the long haul.
One of the reasons I held off having a baby until my late 30's was that I didn't want to be constantly worried. Nor lose my solitude, both inside my head and within my life.
I'm so glad I waited for life is not easy with Dragon. It is constantly challenging.
But I'm up to the challenge.
What does this mean exactly? Will I get to go on that tropical holiday soon and drink margaritas in the sun? Will Dragon start making me breakfast in bed? Will the gamut of kids stuff clogging our small flat evaporate to be replaced by tasteful decor?
Nada.
I think people aka other parents, tell you it gets easier because that is the thing to say. They are not going to say:
Actually it doesn't get easier. It just changes but there will always be something you are worried about.
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| You lug this around all day and tell me its easy |
A friend once said to me that the early years of child rearing is physically exhausting. Later on when they are older, it becomes emotionally exhausting. She said that she found the latter much harder.
Hooray for her honesty.
Because I haven't found that it gets easier. It changes. Your expectations change. You get used to the physical drudgery and the toll it takes. You shift ever so gradually into parenthood. You begin to get a glimmer of the long haul.
One of the reasons I held off having a baby until my late 30's was that I didn't want to be constantly worried. Nor lose my solitude, both inside my head and within my life.
I'm so glad I waited for life is not easy with Dragon. It is constantly challenging.
But I'm up to the challenge.
