New Point Of View
At 25, I was adamantly against a couple of things. 1-being a stay at home mom, & 2-driving a minivan (keep reading for clarification on this one). Here we are only 2 years later (which feels like so mich longer) and I find myself rethinking my point of view.
I always thought that children of stay at home moms were actually at a disadvantage. I thought they would lack social interaction and just not be as "public friendly" for lack of a better term. Seriously...what was I thinking?!?! Of course it is awesome if a mother is able to stay at home with her child(ren). And its not like those stay at homers never go out in public...I mean we still grocery shop, go out to eat, and do all kinds of stuff where we have to interact with the public. So there, the stay at home kids become "public friendly." And as for the social interaction there are stay at home moms all over the place, and a lot of them are part of mommy and me groups that meet regularly. The kids hang out while the mommys hang out. The result, mommy and child get to interact with others from their own generation.
Now the dreaded M word! At 25 I know I said many times "I would never drive a minivan" or "you wouldn't catch me dead in a minivan." I guess its about time I ate those words. Not that I am actually wanting one, but right now I'd drive just about anything other than a car. We have two cars, a 2 door Stratus (which is a stick) and a 4 door Avenger. If you've ever had to get an infant out of a rear facing car seat in any 2 door car, you know the hell I'm talking about. If you haven't, be glad and take my word for it...it SUCKS! The 4 door is way better, but still never seems big enough! I now know what they say is true, "how could something so little (i.e. the baby) need so much stuff?!" Between the car seat, stroller, diaper bag, blanket, buggy cover, and toys there's usually only 1 spare seat in the car. Ideally I'd be driving an SUV. But if it got me out of a car, I would totally drive a minivan right now.
So there you have it...2 short years and 1 small baby later...just 2 ways time and child has changed my point of view!
I always thought that children of stay at home moms were actually at a disadvantage. I thought they would lack social interaction and just not be as "public friendly" for lack of a better term. Seriously...what was I thinking?!?! Of course it is awesome if a mother is able to stay at home with her child(ren). And its not like those stay at homers never go out in public...I mean we still grocery shop, go out to eat, and do all kinds of stuff where we have to interact with the public. So there, the stay at home kids become "public friendly." And as for the social interaction there are stay at home moms all over the place, and a lot of them are part of mommy and me groups that meet regularly. The kids hang out while the mommys hang out. The result, mommy and child get to interact with others from their own generation.
Now the dreaded M word! At 25 I know I said many times "I would never drive a minivan" or "you wouldn't catch me dead in a minivan." I guess its about time I ate those words. Not that I am actually wanting one, but right now I'd drive just about anything other than a car. We have two cars, a 2 door Stratus (which is a stick) and a 4 door Avenger. If you've ever had to get an infant out of a rear facing car seat in any 2 door car, you know the hell I'm talking about. If you haven't, be glad and take my word for it...it SUCKS! The 4 door is way better, but still never seems big enough! I now know what they say is true, "how could something so little (i.e. the baby) need so much stuff?!" Between the car seat, stroller, diaper bag, blanket, buggy cover, and toys there's usually only 1 spare seat in the car. Ideally I'd be driving an SUV. But if it got me out of a car, I would totally drive a minivan right now.
So there you have it...2 short years and 1 small baby later...just 2 ways time and child has changed my point of view!
posted by Raegan's Rents @ 1:26 PM
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