Comments on: Welcome to Parenting

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:54:01 +0000

This is brilliant! Our friends who are childless just don’t get it. Not good, not bad, just different.

By: Janine

Janine — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:07:47 +0000

In reply to AnnaM. I reckon taking on an instant family is such a commendable thing to do - be it fostering, step-parenting, adopting older children. No build up just straight into it. Parenting in all it's forms is challenging and we all stuff up at some point, but you just keep on going and hoping for the best! It just struck me that as this couple were getting children at the tween stage they were going to be on a rapid learning curve about a world entirely foreign to them. Good luck for the school years ahead!

By: AnnaM

AnnaM — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:59:36 +0000

Boy, can I relate to this! Well, parts of it anyway! Our foster kids are still young enough to be on the verge of school so that part is in my future. But the part about being totally unprepared? Tick. The bit about holidays? Yes, hello big resorts that we would normally NEVER go to, and yes, the slide was the big attraction. A hundred times. Maybe more. I fully expect that I will forget lunches at times in the coming year. I will take your advice and try to forge friendships with the ‘tuck-shop-super-mum’.

By: Janine

Janine — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:42:08 +0000

In reply to Therese Goshorn. It's a whole new world!

By: Therese Goshorn

Therese Goshorn — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:33:55 +0000

Sad but true