It would seem to me that parenting is one of those fields of knowledge where you don’t know what you don’t know until you’ve actually had kids yourself. If you find this hard to believe, then imagine how seriously you’d take your younger self if ey were to talk about how to be in a good relationship, before having had a significant other.
So, while I generally dislike discouraging people who are enthusiastic about getting something done, I would like to suggest that perhaps you are not the right person to write this post (or not yet). This is based on my reading of the rubber-ducking sentence as meaning that you have not yet had kids.
If you find this hard to believe, then imagine how seriously you’d take your younger self if ey were to talk about how to be in a good relationship, before having had a significant other.
Most of my dating life has been the process of figuring out how to take my younger self’s wisdom and actually implement it. I’d actually trust my younger self more than my current self—she didn’t care about dating, and thus didn’t have this annoying set of emotions getting in the way.
I seem to be rather unusual in my dating life, but a quick look at the species seems to reveal that hormones and emotions are INCREDIBLE at clouding judgment when it comes to relationships.… In this, at least, I seem to actually manage to have a normal problem.
It would seem to me that parenting is one of those fields of knowledge where you don’t know what you don’t know until you’ve actually had kids yourself. If you find this hard to believe, then imagine how seriously you’d take your younger self if ey were to talk about how to be in a good relationship, before having had a significant other.
So, while I generally dislike discouraging people who are enthusiastic about getting something done, I would like to suggest that perhaps you are not the right person to write this post (or not yet). This is based on my reading of the rubber-ducking sentence as meaning that you have not yet had kids.
Yeah, that was one of my concerns in writing this. Mostly I want to get a discussion started and aggregate as much good info as possible.
Most of my dating life has been the process of figuring out how to take my younger self’s wisdom and actually implement it. I’d actually trust my younger self more than my current self—she didn’t care about dating, and thus didn’t have this annoying set of emotions getting in the way.
I seem to be rather unusual in my dating life, but a quick look at the species seems to reveal that hormones and emotions are INCREDIBLE at clouding judgment when it comes to relationships.… In this, at least, I seem to actually manage to have a normal problem.