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E-Children
Mar. 24th, 2019 06:31 pm This is a totally non-specific appreciation going out to the parents in my social sphere who have given me the great (though not personal) gift of allowing me to watch their children grow up via social media.
I don't have any children myself -- never wanted any, would have made an awful parent. (Though if fortune had dealt me that hand, I would have tried my best.) While my local social circles have included parents of children, I haven't tended to be a spectator to the early years of the process. And the one member of the next generation in my immediate family grew up on the opposite side of the continent (and before significant social media). But I've gotten a lot of joy out of reading about the day to day growing of my friends' infants to toddlers to school kids to...well this particular context hasn't tended to stretch farther than that yet.
It has given me joy. Especially when the parents in question are the sort of hyper-thoughtful, analytic people who use social media to process their own experience of parenthood and therefore allow me an inside view of that experience. If you think I might be talking about you, I probably am.
Thank you.
I don't have any children myself -- never wanted any, would have made an awful parent. (Though if fortune had dealt me that hand, I would have tried my best.) While my local social circles have included parents of children, I haven't tended to be a spectator to the early years of the process. And the one member of the next generation in my immediate family grew up on the opposite side of the continent (and before significant social media). But I've gotten a lot of joy out of reading about the day to day growing of my friends' infants to toddlers to school kids to...well this particular context hasn't tended to stretch farther than that yet.
It has given me joy. Especially when the parents in question are the sort of hyper-thoughtful, analytic people who use social media to process their own experience of parenthood and therefore allow me an inside view of that experience. If you think I might be talking about you, I probably am.
Thank you.
