question for new or recent parents - baring my soul - Beyond Tiki

E emspace Member Vancouver Joined: Jan 05, 2003 Posts: 879	E emspace Posted posted on Sat, Jan 3, 2004 2:11 PM Aloha all, thanks again for all the input. The one thing I think several of you missed is that although Mrs. emspace seems unwilling to part from Ollie for more than the time it takes to take a pee, she still seems to resent MY going out. So I am kind of stuck as far as the give-and-take aspect. Pablus, I like your philosophy! I mean, I just had to agree to give up the Xmas money my Mom sent me to put in the digital video camera fund (now swallowed up), something I really didn't want to do as I distinctly remember there was no such thing as a video camera when I was little. We had a B&W Brownie followed by a color Instamatic for purposes of recording my and my brother's childhood, yet somehow I don't feel deprived. Our priorities are, pardon my French, fucked these days. I do NOT want to watch Ollie grow up through a viewfinder. I have been observing Mrs. emspace's two nephews for the last few years wallowing in an ever-higher mountain of plastic CRAP that they've lost interest in by the end of Christmas day - and there's plenty more plastic crap coming out every year for their poor parents to be browbeaten into buying. But that's the times I guess: if you don't have a digital video camera, you're a lousy parent. This is turning into a thread on approaches to child-rearing I guess, but that's fine with me. Keep it coming if you feel the urge, I'll keep checking. em.

Aloha all,

thanks again for all the input. The one thing I think several of you missed is that although Mrs. emspace seems unwilling to part from Ollie for more than the time it takes to take a pee, she still seems to resent MY going out. So I am kind of stuck as far as the give-and-take aspect.

Pablus, I like your philosophy! I mean, I just had to agree to give up the Xmas money my Mom sent me to put in the digital video camera fund (now swallowed up), something I really didn't want to do as I distinctly remember there was no such thing as a video camera when I was little. We had a B&W Brownie followed by a color Instamatic for purposes of recording my and my brother's childhood, yet somehow I don't feel deprived. Our priorities are, pardon my French, fucked these days. I do NOT want to watch Ollie grow up through a viewfinder. I have been observing Mrs. emspace's two nephews for the last few years wallowing in an ever-higher mountain of plastic CRAP that they've lost interest in by the end of Christmas day - and there's plenty more plastic crap coming out every year for their poor parents to be browbeaten into buying. But that's the times I guess: if you don't have a digital video camera, you're a lousy parent.

This is turning into a thread on approaches to child-rearing I guess, but that's fine with me. Keep it coming if you feel the urge, I'll keep checking.

em.

Post #67520 by emspace on Sat, Jan 3, 2004 2:11 PM