People look at me as though I’m mad. All because we have over the average 2.4 children. (I don’t really know where that statistic came from anymore.) We have four children; two boys and two girls, so it makes for a good gender balance!
When my first son was born, I didn’t really know what to do. I’d never really had a conversation, particularly with my mum, about the merits, roles and such like of bringing up a child.
The assumption out in the general population seemed to be that because you’re a woman having a baby you’ll take to parenting like a ‘duck to water’. In other words – sink or swim (or paddle in this case).
It’s a job I wasn’t ‘trained’ for and it’s one you have to pick up on and learn as you go. Talk about a steep learning curve. I think my first learning curve was about my stamina. Could I function as a real human being day after day after being deprived of sleep?
C’mon, spill the beans – What’s your first step on your huge learning curve?