Recently an American expatriate in Britain wrote an article in a British Tabloid (the Daily Mail), describing how bored she is with motherhood.
Helen Kirwan-Taylor, who describes herself as a good mother, does not attend her children’s school functions, hates reading to her children and is sickened by the idea of watching her children play. Since Kirwan-Taylor’s article appeared she has been soundly trashed by the public in Britain, and rightly so.
By her own admission she became a workaholic solely to escape the tediousness of motherhood. This “mother” says she finds other mothers boring and doesn’t think being a mother should mean one’s life revolves around her children. She vilifies mothers who talk about their children rather than “the wars raging.” As if a person cannot have more than one interest at the same time.
Kirwan-Taylor, and others of like mind should no more have children than Cynthia McKinney should have boxing training. The premise that reading to your child is the pinnacle of boredom says a great deal about a person’s self-absorbed and self-centered lifestyle. Clearly such people should not have children if such tasks are beneath them.
Yes people should live their own lives but to such an extent that even watching their children play is a repulsive thought? By all means live your own life, but why bring others into a world where they learn from the onset that the very people entrusted with providing unconditional love and support would rather be surfing the internet or text messaging their friends? What filth…
If you are bored by your children, if you find their behavior less than desirable, if raising kids is akin to working in a prison labor camp, then guess who’s to blame…that’s right YOU. Parents of hellion children are deadbeat parents who, like Ms. Kirwan-Taylor, probably had no business raising children in the first place. Children learn from their parents, emulating the same slothful, lackadaisical, good-for-nothing attitudes of their beer guzzling, sports obsessed, workaholic, too busy to love, entitlement obsessed parents.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-07-30-bored-mom_x.htm
