I was driving around with my friend, we see this car ahead of us. In the rear window, there was a set of car stickers, that showed 5 stick figuers, and under the big two were Dad and Mom, next to that was Billy, Sally, and Wendy.
I remarked to my friend how odd that after parenthood, you would rather go by Dad than the name you had before. Later, we saw another car, with another stick figuer family on the rear window, this time the two big figuered were Mario and Linda, and the other figuers joey (small case) and mickey (small case).
Right now I just thought back and it made me wonder... do people really change after having kids? and, thier preferred identity? and, this is really terrible of me, I know... but, I just couldn't help but view the parents in the second family car as somehow less mature, less, into parenthood. Everyone has a right to be who they are, so my second question is: can I still be me and be a good parent?
me: no kids right now, but I work with them often,
2006-12-10
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