OH what I have to look foward to...

Check out this blog. www.dadgonemad.com I follow this blog, warning, it isn't for the easily offended, and there are cuss words used occasionally. BUT it is funny and humorous. The man who owns this blog is a stay at home dad with a son and a daughter and he basically chronicles his life through the blog and actually makes money off of his blog (hence the advertismetns on it). Check out the post from Thursday titled, Girls are Wierd. I can TOTALLY see myself in a situation like this man found himself one day! Oh I can hardly wait and we are already getting there! I tell ya, parents deserve metals for raising girls, let me tell ya! I know not ALL boys are like what he describes but lets get honest, girls are mostly dramatic, irrational and emotional starting from a VERY early age! Now I know what my mother went through (I have said that a lot since I had Shelby). I like to say that as soon as Shelby chills out, then puberty will hit and all hell will break loose again! lol My mother often reminds me how awful those early teen years were, all you with daughters probably know what she is talking about too, all you have to say is 13 years old! I have heard this is one of those terrible, awful, don't want to come home from work years. Of course I don't think I was as bad as my mother claims I was! Kimberly was worse right??!?!?!? Actually my mother says that Kimberly may have been bad, but I was worse! Is that possible????? :) Well maybe! I used to think my mother was crazy and unorganized (well still slightly feel this way, love ya mom!) and was just plan nuts and I just couldn't fathome why she would carry on like a crazy lunatic! It surely wasn't ME that caused any of that! I really don't remember being irrational when I was 13, I am sure I was but I don't remember! I was a pretty good kid and teenager, never got into trouble, was not rebelious, never skipped school, never tried cigs or drugs, was awlays home before curfew and was generally afraid of disappointing my parents and didn't want them to be upset with me. Maybe the fact that my father threatened us with our lives for smoking or doing drugs or well doing anything bad, scared me enough to stay completely away from all of that. I did get 2 speeding tickets in 2 weeks my senior year, but that was the worst I had ever done really. Lets face it, it is completely scary raising a child in the world, especially these days. You are afraid you are doing something wrong, raising them wrong, you are afraid you aren't teaching them all of the life lessons that your parents taught you that you want to pass on to your kids, you are afraid you aren't disiplining enough or good enough (are you letting them get away with TOO much), please tell me exactly how to get my daughter to stop playing in the sink!?!?! I am completely scared to death to send my daughter to school one day (yes I already think about this), you want them to succeed and have lots of friends and not get picked on. Kids are cruel, especially girls. What if nobody picks her for their team in gym or recess and she comes home crying becuase she was picked on! I hate to even think about it. But it will happen I am sure. I am told you never stop worrying about your children, once they move out, you worry you about wether you have taught them enough about life to still succeed and that they make the right choices and decisions in life. For now I worry about what I feed my daughter. YOu all know that organic and all natural is all the craze right now. YOu may think I am silly but they add SO many things to our food now awadays, preservatives, hormones, etc..I wonder if I am damaging my child by not giving her more natural things. And what about vaccines, you know back when I was a small child getting vacciness all the time (even just in the 80's), I read that they only gave 10 vacinnes , now they give over 30! And they give a lot at one time, even when they are newborns. They didn't used to do that. Don't worry, I give my child all of her vaccines, but the thought has crossed my mind. If you are interested in what people are saying about the link between vaccines and autism here is an interview with Jenny Mcarthy who has really made this thing of hers after her son was diagnosed with autism http://www.pr.com/article/1076 I can't say that I totally agree but it is interesting. I think there are many, many things that contribute to the rise in autism, including more awareness. Well I should shutup for now!