Welcome to the Saturday edition of Jodifur. I have so many questions to answer a weekend break was out of the question. (Actually, I normally blog on the weekends. I know some bloggers don't but I do).
And just a reminder. Tomorrow is the Blog Exchange. This months task was to pick your favorite post, and I really love the post I picked. (Feel free to guess or name your favorite post!). Monday is month two of Small Change. After that I have a few more questions to answer and then I have to start coming up with my own topics again!
Lesley asks "do you ever freak out about Michael growing up? Do you wonder what the next stage holds and how you will adapt?"
Um yeah, all the time. Sometimes I freak out about Michael not growing up, that something is going to happen to him. And other times I worry about what is going to happen when he goes to college, or gets married. Boys aren't always so great about keeping in touch with their parents, and I can't imagine not talking to him.
Right now I am freaking out a bit about preschool. Michael is currently in a home daycare 3 days a week that runs a little preschool program. The plan was just to keep him there until he started kindergarten. Everyone keeps telling me I can't do that. He has to go to a real pre-school. With desks, and classes. Otherwise he will be behind in Kindergarten.
I acknowledge these people are crazy, but what if his home daycare is not educational enough? So I've started researching preschool programs. He won't go until September of 2008 (he'll be 3 1/2, and I'm not moving him this September at 2 1/2, I know slacker mom), we need to register him in September of 2007. Seriously, the whole thing just makes me tired.
Robbin asks "I see on your profile that you are into child advocacy law. How do you handle it emotionally while being a Mom?"
I get asked this question a lot. I normally just don't think about it. The kids I see are so far removed from Michael, that the comparison doesn't even cross my mind. My first case back from maternity leave was a child the same age as Michael, and that was hard. I wasn't sure then if I could do it. But normally, it's not a problem. The cases make me madder now then they did before I had a child. I don't think I got how unnatural it was for a parent to hurt a child until I was a parent.
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I have wondered the same thing about the work you do. I had a hard time understanding how someone could hurt a child before Emily was born and now it is inconceivable to me.
Thank you, also, for blogging on the weekends. I usually check the blogs I read on the weekends and there isn’t usually much out there.
Have a good weekend!!
I have wondered the same thing about the work you do. I had a hard time understanding how someone could hurt a child before Emily was born and now it is inconceivable to me.
Thank you, also, for blogging on the weekends. I usually check the blogs I read on the weekends and there isn’t usually much out there.
Have a good weekend!!
I have wondered the same thing about the work you do. I had a hard time understanding how someone could hurt a child before Emily was born and now it is inconceivable to me.
Thank you, also, for blogging on the weekends. I usually check the blogs I read on the weekends and there isn’t usually much out there.
Have a good weekend!!
I have wondered the same thing about the work you do. I had a hard time understanding how someone could hurt a child before Emily was born and now it is inconceivable to me.
Thank you, also, for blogging on the weekends. I usually check the blogs I read on the weekends and there isn’t usually much out there.
Have a good weekend!!