I seriously DO NOT think i was meant to be a mother. I hate this more than ANYTHING in the world and i mean fucking HATE it!!!! thank the fucking lord there is only one kid. I wish i could rip out my uteris to make sure one NEVER happens again...ever!!!!

Its a bit surprising to me that mothers are so aware of how total strangers react/not react to their children.I think is sweet when someone stops to say hi to my small children,but I don't really expect it and I certainly don't look at others to see if they are noticing my child.I wonder if the same people who expect a level of courtesy for thier toddlers are the same people who freak out when homeless people come into proximity.

I am the mom to your niece. I am a great mom. I don't mind watching your granddaughter. I do not know her well. So, why does her mother think it's ok for me to watch her over night. Neither one of us want to be in each others company that long.

Good lord, just let people be mothers without everyone interfering with their techniques. There isn't only one way to do things, just because you wouldn't do it that way does not make it wrong.

I've been having my teen daughter read Truu so she can get a real sense of what motherhood entails. Maybe she'll stop talking about wanting a baby the minute she and her BF turn 18.

I was out with a bunch of friends and the conversation turned to drinking. Apparently, every mother has to drink copious amounts to cope with being a mother. They're all talking about how hard it is to cut down, and how one glass a day is their goal, etc. and I'm thinking "what?" I drink maybe 2 glasses a year (xmas and maybe at another fancy special occasion or something). I never realized that I was the most sober person I knew. It's scary.

I don't believe life begins at conception. I believe a fetus isn't VIABLE (able to maintain life without dependency on it's mother's womb) until MUCH further past the 12-week/early pregnancy abortion category. I don't feel like an abortion before that viability is possible is taking a life. 1 abortion. No regrets. Planning for future children at a more sensible, stable point in my life.

I was a very good mother, gave it my all, and enjoyed every bit of raising my son (together with his dad). Gave him lots of love, a balance of strictness and leniency, and a reasonable amount of freedom of choice. He had a well-rounded childhood and turned out to be a loving, respectful, interesting, hardworking young man. What more could I ask for? :) Even though I did my absolute best during those 18 years, it's hard not to have some regrets on my part.

I had multiple abortions when I was younger and I fully realize how irresponsible and sick it was. But they do not define me and do not make me any less of a parent to my children today. I do take it to heart when people make comments about women who have had abortions should be sterilized, never have kids, etc. I am a good mother.

Stay at home parents are amazing. I have a lot of respect for them, my own mother was SAHM and she in my opinion is the best mum in the world! I just can't respect my friend who wants to have a baby as soon as possible just so she doesn't have to work any more. That's a terrible reason to have a child and it's a terrible reason to quit work. Her lazy ass is in for a shock when she discovers that it's not so easy after all...