It is not about being infallible. It is about making your children your top priority, nothing more, nothing less.
Absolute bullshit. It's about a bunch of voyeuristic twits taking great glee in convincing themselves they're perfect when they condemn the mistakes of others. Save your sanctimony.
Exactly.
If I forget to pick up my kids at a soccer game, are they no longer my "top priority"?
I don't blame her for putting her 5-month old in fulltime day care since I don't know her circumstances. What I can't understand is how a mother of a little baby could not think of the baby during the day, not check in on her, not have a moment of "wait--I don't remember dropping her off..." and just strolling in to get her at 5:30. Is it drugs? A low IQ? Complete self-absorption?
I can't imagine doing that myself, although I'm far from infallible.
And while I do pity her, an innocent baby is dead through her neglect.
If you make your children your top priority, it will most likely destroy your marriage.
The 10 things all parents know about their childless couple friends:
1. They (childless couples) know everything there is to know about raising children.
2. They never shy away from sharing their parenting wisdom with those of us who actually have kids.
3. They cannot understand what the big deal is about raising kids.
4. They cannot understand how parents can be so absent-minded.
5. They think taking care of 2 dogs and a cat is more work than taking care of a single child.
6. They get twice as much sleep as we do.
7. They take off most every weekend.
8. They still have a life.
9. They are as judgemental toward parents as ex-smokers are towards smokers.
10. They don't have even the remotest clue to what being a parent really is.
In other words- it is about being infallible.