Am I wearing crazy pants?
I’ve suddenly become interested in foster parenting, which certainly begs that question. It isn’t something I’d do now, or even a couple years from now, but I know we’re going to want children probably in 3 years or so and we won’t be “ready.”
In three years, I plan to have finished my Master’s and be hopping onto the Occupational Therapy career-boat. Ian will still be in school, whether he’ll have his Bachelor’s by then or not, and will drop his working hours to part-time to take his turn as a full-time student. Maybe we will be buying a house. But, since we’re planning for me to become the primary income provider of the household, the very beginning of a career is a crappy time to get pregnant, have a baby, and then breastfeed.
This is why a foster child sounds really nice. The gob’ment gives you a bunch of parenting classes and puts a potty-trained, solid-food-eating, love-needing chillun’ in your home, and then they pay for food, clothes, and health insurance. If it’s terrifying it doesn’t matter because it’s temporary. The loving and caring for a child are the easy parts, what we need to practice are our patience and time budgeting, which fostercare amply provides. It seems to me the ultimate parenting training wheels.
Is this awesome
(Y/N)?
February 9th, 2007 at 8:33 am
You and Ian would make such awesome parents, I think whatever the road is that best leads to you raising some people sprouts is the best road.
February 15th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
If your child turns out to be an atomic super baby, that would be awesome. The regular kind are cool too. But either way, death to the Cylon’s.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
UMM, I don’t know. I have very mixed feelings about this. I too, have considered the possibilities. The thing I fear the most is getting too attached and the child having to go back to whatever hell they previously came from,,could you do It?
You both will make good parents, when you decide the time is right, and you never can “plan” well when that will be.