*Puts hand up*
Yes, single mother of two.


However having children *is* a choice and not a disease. They can be fantastic but ultimately they are PEOPLE - so some of them are irritating gits (not mine of course...ha! If only...).
They smell.
They're rude.
They get in the way.
They think the entire world revolves around them.

But the same is true of the elderly.

Personally I'm of the opinion that give and take is good in any relationship - including that of employee and boss. Turn up late (for whatever reason) then you do a bit extra at the end of the day. Call in sick because you've got to take the cat to the vet/ take granny to have her corns done/ stay home with a vomiting child then you make up the time as best you can.

Kids are not an excuse, but then neither is caring for an elderly relative and the way the birthrate is going soon I'm sure there will be more of us caring for some old dear who smells of wee rather than some tiny thing who smells of wee. Both however are facts of life.

But we do have marginally more control over producing babies than having elderly relatives.

I had a student moaning to me the other week that she couldn't get things done because she was a single mother of two. I told her very quickly that so am I and it doesn't stop me.

Children should not be used as excuses or as a reason to get a parking space.

Including those bloody parent and child spaces at supermarkets! When my twins were babies I could never get in to one because some lazy cow with teenagers was always parked in there! Grrrrr
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sun 27 Jan 2008, 22:21, Reply)