Hello world!

I am a mother of one who, for many years, observed that people are afraid to admit many things that they experience as parents – single parents, married parents, parents to non-biological children, parents of troubled kids, parents who parent apart, parents going through a separation (death, divorce, etc.), parenting while ill – everything parenting related – parenting with little or nothing (physically, psychologically, mentally, financially) – parenting in the midst of a miserable relationship/job, etc.  It is my observation that so many of us are more interested in maintaining a façade that we often do not want to talk about “the other side of parenting”.

The other side of parenting is everything about parenting that most people tend to pussy-foot around.  It is everything else that we don’t want to speak about.  This blog was established to get parents, both males and females (myself included) to address those issues that affect our everyday lives and invariably affect or impact our parenting, in one way or another.  It is my hope to get parents to be engaged in REAL discussions about what bothers us, what scares us, what helps us, what makes us laugh, what frightens us, etc. as parents… what to do when you DON’T want to do…?  

This is a no-holes-barred blog, which will attempt to not just chronicle parenting issues as I see it, but will, in some instances, serve to give voice to those issues that affect, not just us as parents, but our children.  What parenting is to one person isn’t what it is necessarily is to another.  What we experience on a daily basis and how we interpret those experiences affect what we do as parents; it affects our thought processes, which invariably affects how we parent or IF we parent.  The truth is , what the world has fed to us about parenting, in most cases (in my estimation), is a bundle of crap.

 On this blog, I want honesty to prevail in an effort to supply answers to those questions we are afraid to ask as parents; or those issues we are afraid to talk about/admit.  The good thing about this blog is that you are not required to give your real names/countries/number of children.  I want to hear your voice, so that together we can try to bring about a change in this parenting process, which will ultimately benefit us and most importantly the way we parent our children to be the best they can be amidst the madness of the world, which include the struggles of the everyday lives of the parents (and children).