TRUE STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES! Moments is filled with stories about raising kids. Says author Catherine Burr, "A fellow mom recently confided in me that someone had asked her... No, told her, "Not to talk about her kids so much." As she relayed this story to me, I was speechless, which is not an easy feat for this writer. I was baffled. This mother doesn't talk about her kids any more than any other mom I know. Her candid remark started me thinking. "Do we, as mothers, talk too much about our children?"
From the minute they're born, from the minute someone knows that they are going to have a baby, we as parents generally go ecstatic. I mean, Tom Cruise wasn't jumping on Oprah's couch for nothing.
And so it begins. Discussions with people offering advice, everything from what brand of diapers to use, right into deliberations on how to get your, up-and-coming, offspring into the "right" school. And I'm not just talking preschool here. Colleges are discussed with fervor and magnanimous expectations. Heaven forbid if your child doesn't get into the perceived-proper preschool, how will he or she ever get into an acceptable grammar school? And that is a direct lead into the appropriate high school, which will surely get them into the "right" university. And so we discuss. We banter. We debate. And, yes, we talk about our kids!
