1) Do you want to be a parent someday? Why/why not?
I have two kids 12 and 15, boy first, then the girl.
2) If you already are, was it planned, or did it kind of just happen?
Planned down to their birth signs! One's a cancer, the other a taurus.
3) What are/will be some of the most important values & morals you want to teach your children?
Giving my kids a religious foundation. Kids that don't believe in a higher power scare the crap out of me... Teaching them to be mindful of others before themselves...teaching them to think about actions and consequences...To think for themselves...
4) How many children do you want to have?
Two is perfect, but babies smell so good and their warm skin makes me yearn occasionally for another. Glad my tubes were tied!
5) How will you look upon the responsibilty of raising your children? An adventure? A duty?
Duty. This is my main job! I work now, but not until the kids were in school. They need the consistency of adult supervision, love, and interest even now...I have had some mighty adventures on the job though!
6) If you already have grown children, if given the chance, would you go back and do it all over again just for the hell of it?
They have turned out to be wonderful people so far, so, no.
7) Have you always felt the same way about this subject, or did your feelings change at some point in your life? If so, how/why?
I had always wanted children. Babysat, volunteered at the YMCA, worked as an aide in the schools, read books to kids at the library. That's why I went into teaching also. I like most kids.
8) What would/did you most look forward to when you have/had your own children? What do you least look foward to?
I like the fact that I can see them developing into the adults they're going to be. It's exciting! I didn't like the dependence they had on me when they were little. So needy, sometimes I felt sucked dry by them. Every year gets a little better, more vocabulary, less dependence.
I have two kids 12 and 15, boy first, then the girl.
2) If you already are, was it planned, or did it kind of just happen?
Planned down to their birth signs! One's a cancer, the other a taurus.
3) What are/will be some of the most important values & morals you want to teach your children?
Giving my kids a religious foundation. Kids that don't believe in a higher power scare the crap out of me... Teaching them to be mindful of others before themselves...teaching them to think about actions and consequences...To think for themselves...
4) How many children do you want to have?
Two is perfect, but babies smell so good and their warm skin makes me yearn occasionally for another. Glad my tubes were tied!
5) How will you look upon the responsibilty of raising your children? An adventure? A duty?
Duty. This is my main job! I work now, but not until the kids were in school. They need the consistency of adult supervision, love, and interest even now...I have had some mighty adventures on the job though!
6) If you already have grown children, if given the chance, would you go back and do it all over again just for the hell of it?
They have turned out to be wonderful people so far, so, no.
7) Have you always felt the same way about this subject, or did your feelings change at some point in your life? If so, how/why?
I had always wanted children. Babysat, volunteered at the YMCA, worked as an aide in the schools, read books to kids at the library. That's why I went into teaching also. I like most kids.
8) What would/did you most look forward to when you have/had your own children? What do you least look foward to?
I like the fact that I can see them developing into the adults they're going to be. It's exciting! I didn't like the dependence they had on me when they were little. So needy, sometimes I felt sucked dry by them. Every year gets a little better, more vocabulary, less dependence.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe