![]() ![]() Wanted to write about this sickening self doubt that I felt, looking at I imagined myself trying to talk to a child, and it coming It struck me as impossibly wise and insightful, something that I could Princess metaphor to explain to girls how to be polite. How little ladies of the realm comport themselves!" Looking back, it's aĬute thing to say, but not so shatteringly brilliant - just using a I remember a friend withĭaughters explaining how she'd told her misbehaving girls, "This is not Perfectly cook fish, organizing gardens, making sound parentingĭecisions, folding diapers into origami. Seemed like all my contemporaries were gliding along, knowing how to The only person who ever had thoughts like this, but at the time it To put it simply, Iĭidn't think I was good enough to be a mother. Uterus would be permanently scarred by my failings. With fear that I was too weird, too self-absorbed, too unskilled to haveĪ child, and that whatever baby had the bad luck to be born of my ![]() Novel I had just gotten pregnant with my first child. ![]()
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