Ugh
#1 - Corporate America needs to deal with single working moms better. Face it CEOs - we HAVE to take care of our kids. We aren't going to be taking the time off we earned in big week long chunks. We have to save it for dentist appointments and doctor appointments and conferences and sick kids. And do you (Corporate America) want to be the ones responsible for some kid receiving an award at school, looking out into the crowd and seeing NO ONE there that he knows? Quit trying to make me feel bad for taking care of my kids. Especially when I STILL have time left to take.
#2 - The big phrase these days is "It Gets Better".... specifically targeted towards GLBT Teens who are so distraught by how they are treated and feeling. And I hope for them it does get better. But I gotta say, growing up does not make "it" better. Being a grown up is hard. And sometimes you have to go through stuff that hurts SO badly. And your heart gets broken. And you don't know how to fix it. But you have to. I'm not sure we're selling them an honest bill of goods there. And while I'm at it, I'm kind of tired of this whole sense that it's only GLBT teens are are picked on a bullied. WRONGO GONGO - if you're different, you're a target. And it doesn't always get better.
Sorry... kind of a Debbie Downer (waaa-waaaaaa).... promise to come back later with something light!!!
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If corporate america doesn't want to or complains about the single Moms out there saving their precious vacation in order to take care of their children, maybe they would like to foot the bill for a service that would do all of that for the single moms????Or better than that, send their divorced male employees to a training seminar on how to actually participate and be present for some of those dr and dentist appts....sorry, tangent!!!
And I don't think that you are being a Debbie Downer about the GLBT kids. The truth is the truth.!!! Get used to it. Life does not get any easier when you're grown. ANd you are right, different is a target whether its GLBT or just blue hair. I hate that our world is like that, but, I myself, have been victim as well. I guess we all just have to get to the point that what is within us is good enough.
You are the first person that has spoken the truth...that no matter what, it doesn't always get better! No matter who you are...different is a target and you can be that target well into adulthood.
As for Corporate America...they will never get it. Heck, they even give a hard time to parents that aren't single, wondering why the other parent can't do it. *roll eyes*
Oh, I so totally agree! I'm doing the single parent thing now also, although my husband and I aren't officially divorced, we've been living separately for over a year. It's so tough.
The fact is, for all but a small handful of people, being a teenager is really, really hard. I know that the LGBT teens are in the spotlight now, but it feels like it discounts the trials of all of the kids who don't fall into the de rigeur special category. And, as you say, it implies that once you graduate high school that the world is suddenly a rosy, glowy place. It isn't.
And, SIGH, I don't know what to say about corporate America. It sucks.
My niece (a child psychologist)says that harassing people because they aren't like you is an American tradition, not common in other cultures. I wonder if that's true.
Corporate America should celebrate anyone taking responsibility for their children, which isn't always the norm.
On a more positive note, we just finished the Lefse, but haven't yet started the Krumkakke. Want some?
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