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I don't know why I don't speak up, and in fact, why I actually make excuses for my way of parenting. Today, I said, when asked why I haven't yet left my child to go see a movie or something,
"Well... you know us... we are hoovering parents."
AS IF THERE IS SOMETHING DYSFUNCTIONAL ABOUT IT.
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I feel like calling my friend back (who is a very nice person, and it's obviously me who has insecuities and he was just asking a question trying to understand) and telling him that indeed, I am NOT a "hoovering parent" but in fact, a loving parent and then give him a schpiel about Attachment Parenting. I even want to go so far as to tell him that I think his other friends who have babies are doing it wrong, not the other way around.
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He was offering to babysit. He was being sweet, and because I couldn't stand up and explain to him the basic philosophy behind why I am not like his other parent friends (he does not have children yet, but wants them), he now is under the impression that even I think there is something wrong with how I am raising my child.
I dont know if any of you can relate to being spineless, but I wanted to share. I am so disappointed with myself.
"Well... you know us... we are hoovering parents."
AS IF THERE IS SOMETHING DYSFUNCTIONAL ABOUT IT.

I feel like calling my friend back (who is a very nice person, and it's obviously me who has insecuities and he was just asking a question trying to understand) and telling him that indeed, I am NOT a "hoovering parent" but in fact, a loving parent and then give him a schpiel about Attachment Parenting. I even want to go so far as to tell him that I think his other friends who have babies are doing it wrong, not the other way around.

He was offering to babysit. He was being sweet, and because I couldn't stand up and explain to him the basic philosophy behind why I am not like his other parent friends (he does not have children yet, but wants them), he now is under the impression that even I think there is something wrong with how I am raising my child.
I dont know if any of you can relate to being spineless, but I wanted to share. I am so disappointed with myself.