Is this Yahoo’s idea of parenting — repeatedly abandoning your child?
Sounds like she has postpartum depression and needs help. Pronto.
so... what happened to her son while she was finding herself?
So the responsibilities of everyday life overwhelmed her,and she dumps her family.
And these people want to rule the world?
Only a liberal would think it was okay to leave a 5 y/o child for large chunks of time adding up to two years, literally to find herself. I found myself as soon as my first child was born. I’m a parent, and that has been my most important and most urgent role from then and continuing until all of my kids are grown. It’s one thing to leave a child in order to go and defend the country from evil (a bit disconcerting with evil in charge of our White House but still a great choice), but it’s entirely different to abandon a young child for shallow and selfish reasons.
Having actually read the article, I don’t see anything bad in what she did. Over two years, she went on several trips of about a week’s duration each. What’s the big deal?
Sick. It changes the permanent personality of your child to do that. Selfish and just wrong.
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.
She’s an App State teacher
Boone is weird mix of hippies,academia, rich vacation home folks and serious hillbilly stock
It’s always been wacky but in recent years the school has grown so much it’s become more Southern prep college
Prettier girls etc
Asheville is the new Boone
Larger freakier and strident progressives
And huge huge lesbican population
I travel to both frequently
I remember sharing with my 12 month old first born the wonder of an earthworm. I also remember leaving my 4 year old and my 18 month old to go sailing with Mr. M and some friends around Martha’s Vineyard. When I got back the 18 month old was really angry. In fact I think at 35 he’s still sort of pissed off. But once I read that she would only leave for “a week or two” I was sort of okay with it. Didn’t it say that she was a travel writer? So in the theme of “If mamma ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy” then this is who she was and it needed to still be part of her.
Like no mother in all of recorded human history had to deal with a colicky baby without having it turn into an intense personal crisis.
If she were really remarkable she would have taken the child along with her. Now that is adventure!
G_d
Spouse
Children
Others
Self
Looks like it is impossible to be fulfilled using her order of spiritual life.
The amazing thing about this article is the question; Why is it published?
"Even though I don’t go to Mexico every year to watch the monarchs congregate, I can step outside into my yard with him and see that first monarch arrive on the milkweed in our yard."
YGBSM. This woman should never have had children.
She is 37 years old, which means generationally she is falling on the fringe between GenX and the Millennials.
The "Late GenXers"/"Early Millennials"/"In-Betweeners" might be the worst. They generally had a later generation of parents than the early GenXers (Baby Boomers vs. The Silent Generation). They seem to be more likely to be hippies than the Millennials born a few years later.
In my travels, I’ve met many “travel addicts”. They’re the ones that love to boast about the remote locations they’ve been to, and who can’t wait to make it to the next minor festival at a small village, or see the remains of a thousand year old tomb in the middle of nowhere, being the first foreigner there since the Lonley Planet writer.
She needs to be slapped hard. So does her husband for putting up with her carp. Their poor child doesn’t stand a chance.
Without Jesus that sense of emptiness will remain no matter what she does.