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lillibet ([personal profile] lillibet) wrote2008-11-18 02:20 pm
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Are you ready?

The Are You Ready to Be a Parent? quiz is actually not a bad checklist.
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[personal profile] dpolicar 2008-11-18 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
(nods) Looks reasonable to me, although "enough money" and "enough time" definitely suffer from lack of definition.

"You are ready to accept any child you have, including a child with a severe mental or physical disability" is a toughie. I'm not 100% convinced anyone can answer that (either way) absent the actual stimulus. But it's definitely a question one should be asking.

"You aren't [..] moody" is interesting.
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[personal profile] cz_unit 2008-11-18 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, a lot of them seemed like "oh so peachy keen" questions. Isn't everyone so open, so willing to handle anything, so relaxed and at peace with the world that they can take a 8 pound chaos bomb dropped in their lives like a fragmentation grenade?

Parenting is. It's not something you can really sit there and dawdle on being "ready". When you feel you're ready give it a roll.

CZ

Wishes he did it at 16. I had a lot more energy back then.

[identity profile] lionsburg.livejournal.com 2008-11-19 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps "Enough Money" should be "Enough Money To Continue In The Lifestyle You Have Grown Accustom To"?