Thank you for this. I tell my students that being a mother is the most important part of my life. I deeply regret waiting so long (I had complications) and I wish I had more kids. I tell everyone I know that having kids is the best thing in the world. We have mislead a couple of generations now and it's tragic. Most of the young teachers at my school are "childless by choice". They play video games and go to orotests. They seem angry, miserable, confused. They change their pronouns and their political obsessions with the wind. They are unmoored. I'm glad there is a counter narrative. We need to keep talking about it.
It is a humanmade tragedy, decades in the making. I agree, we must keep talking about it, to help moor those who feel lost and bereft and society is not giving them a better way forward. Thank you for sharing your observations. The teachers and students at your school are fortunate to have you. Question for you, do you feel free to speak your mind or do you have to keep things to yourself?
I never criticize anyone or counter any particular belief (like arguing against the position that women should put their careers first, for example). I only speak to my own experience. But I express my strong feelings. In general, we are forced to comply with a narrow range of leftist views. For example, I was forced to sit through a meeting where a group of childless women mocked a male Catholic conservative for telling a group of Catholic graduates, including women, that their role in their families is more important than their jobs. I happen to agree with him, but it was a feeding frenzy in that meeting. Women were really outraged and excited. I am a feminist but I reject any feminism that subverts family life or demonizes men. Anyone who speaks out against the leftist party line is in danger of getting punished. Recently, two conservative but apolotical Christian women were moved out of my school to more difficult placements. You have to pick your battles. I have been outspoken in defense of Jews, so that is my advicavy work.
I had a very cute convo with my 4 year old son recently about when he grows up and has a wife and babies. He told me that his wife would look after the girl baby and he would look after the boy baby 🤣 and apparently babies cry A LOT, but you just have to rock them and give them some milk and then they'll go to sleep (I thought ohhhh if only it were that easy 🫢😅).
One of the beautiful parts of becoming a parent is that one day you might become grandparent!
Until quite recently I did not want to get older than 99 years. Nowadays my 'goal' is meeting all children of my (five) grandchildren. The youngest grandson is 7 years old now, so maybe I have to pass that 99 limit.
The fact that there was no grandparent in my own life somehow makes being a grandfather even more special.
Thank you for this. I tell my students that being a mother is the most important part of my life. I deeply regret waiting so long (I had complications) and I wish I had more kids. I tell everyone I know that having kids is the best thing in the world. We have mislead a couple of generations now and it's tragic. Most of the young teachers at my school are "childless by choice". They play video games and go to orotests. They seem angry, miserable, confused. They change their pronouns and their political obsessions with the wind. They are unmoored. I'm glad there is a counter narrative. We need to keep talking about it.
It is a humanmade tragedy, decades in the making. I agree, we must keep talking about it, to help moor those who feel lost and bereft and society is not giving them a better way forward. Thank you for sharing your observations. The teachers and students at your school are fortunate to have you. Question for you, do you feel free to speak your mind or do you have to keep things to yourself?
I never criticize anyone or counter any particular belief (like arguing against the position that women should put their careers first, for example). I only speak to my own experience. But I express my strong feelings. In general, we are forced to comply with a narrow range of leftist views. For example, I was forced to sit through a meeting where a group of childless women mocked a male Catholic conservative for telling a group of Catholic graduates, including women, that their role in their families is more important than their jobs. I happen to agree with him, but it was a feeding frenzy in that meeting. Women were really outraged and excited. I am a feminist but I reject any feminism that subverts family life or demonizes men. Anyone who speaks out against the leftist party line is in danger of getting punished. Recently, two conservative but apolotical Christian women were moved out of my school to more difficult placements. You have to pick your battles. I have been outspoken in defense of Jews, so that is my advicavy work.
Thank you for your voice and conviction and for reporting from the front lines...
Thank you for this! So important
Sometimes this incessant pressure has the opposite effect.
I had a very cute convo with my 4 year old son recently about when he grows up and has a wife and babies. He told me that his wife would look after the girl baby and he would look after the boy baby 🤣 and apparently babies cry A LOT, but you just have to rock them and give them some milk and then they'll go to sleep (I thought ohhhh if only it were that easy 🫢😅).
This is so precious and perfect. And this vision needs nurturing, see it is all inside, innate!
The current culture dissolves that like the toxic solvent it is.
One of the beautiful parts of becoming a parent is that one day you might become grandparent!
Until quite recently I did not want to get older than 99 years. Nowadays my 'goal' is meeting all children of my (five) grandchildren. The youngest grandson is 7 years old now, so maybe I have to pass that 99 limit.
The fact that there was no grandparent in my own life somehow makes being a grandfather even more special.