Sometimes people who love children and animals the most don't have them because they are thinking of their welfare and not their own. We should have a day for women who are not mothers because they sacraficed their own needs for a higher purpose.

Daisygirl

No one without a child or children can understand what all the hullabloo is about, no one. Just as no one can understand what its like to be filthy rich if they never have been or what its like to have cancer if they've never had it. We can sympathize, we can act interested and be sincere to a point but thats about it. Children are our futures, without them the world as we know it would cease to exist, thats a fact! So we honor Mothers and Fathers once a year. By honoring them are we dishonoring those who aren't parents, 'NO' of course not. I am an animal activist as Dotsie said but never bring it up unless asked and I am a mom too, I understand about having kids and yet I am sometimes sick to death of all the chatter from some about their little Johnnie or Susie pie so I can only imagine how sickening it can be to those who don't have a clue what parenthood really means. I say honor each individual for their own particular accomplishments, whatever they are and be patient with the endless chatter from some parents because their children may be their only worthwhile accomplishment. Children especially many children at once have a way of taking over ones life, they become their life, they have no time for anything else....they need to vent, try to be understanding or just walk away politely. I've had to, many many times.

[ May 12, 2006, 06:22 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]

Thistle, I am a parent. Of two, most lovely of children (did you expect me to say less?). One of whom has passed from this world to the next. But I agree with you one one issue - the world (or maybe the U.S.) is revolving around children, to the point where I think it's unhealthy for the children...I surely don't believe in "seen but not heard" in the sense where that phrase was coined, but I do believe that too much emphasis is being placed on the children and their accomplishments. (or what many see as accomplishments) But also, I think that the pendulum swings...what was once a horrible place for children has now become too much of sanctuary for misbehavior. Really, all I am saying is that children need to learn respect for others, including their elders, where respect is due. I , for one, never expected my children to respect adults just because they were adults, but because they deserved the respect given. As they should give to anyone, adult or child. And also, respect is given until proven otherwise. In fact, that's how I raised my children. They were given respect by me - trusting in myself that I had raised them right - and were told that they had no rules except when they showed me that they needed them...we had very few rules in our household. Just didn't need them.

I am not saying these things to prove that I am a great parent. I am just trying to say that things can be accomplished with a minimum of fuss. And that children are like all others---they need to have respect and give it as well...

Searcher