The article by journalist Jancee Dunn, titled My Marriage Has A Third Wheel: Our Child, helpfully includes a photo of the couple’s apparently problematic nine-year-old. In it, we learn that the author “would never have dreamed of sharing anything remotely personal with my parents,” but “wanted a different kind of relationship with our daughter.” And hence happily directing a media spotlight onto said youngster while waiting for applause.
How to turn your kids into obnoxious a holes in one easy lesson.
OWG
..and in that vein, done so via an ignorant “weapons grade” twat as a mom.
I am irritated that this comment contributes in a small way to the recognition these pathetic turds so desperately seek.
It’s all part of the Jewish Hwood agenda perpetrated by Israel.
I know Zero hedgers can explain it in much more detail than I can.
But Hey wildfires. Damn Canada,
At the risk of being the odd person out here, I thought the article was cute. It was an honest portrait of a challenge faced by couples with only one kid. I suggest that those complaining about what she has to say should recognize that they are likely not the target audience for her piece. Lots if writing can seem silly, out of touch, narcissistic, etc. if the topic is not meaningful to you.
Two words; READING COMPREHENSION. Clearly not a couple anymore. But, what would I expect from someone who was behind Andrew Scheer for so long.
She wrote the book ‘How To Not Hate Your Husband After Kids’, and clearly does not follow her own advice, as clearly no longer has a husband, and is looking for victim 9. Nine, because I am just assuming she already been married at least twice, did more than one infanticide, and the current child is clearly another victim on the list, and not the last.
All I said was that people here are not the target audience for that piece. Not sure what that has to do with either reading comprehension or whether of not she still has a husband. Also, I am not currently a Scheer supporter and have not been for some time. I think you are mixing me up with someone else.
It was an honest portrait of a challenge faced by couples with only one kid.
Oh, really? I’m an only child and I’ve known several other people like me. One thing we had in common was that we were high achievers. Many of us not only went on to university but earned graduate degrees as well.
Our parents invested in our futures.
The author, on the other hand, comes across as if her daughter was merely one more item on a list of things she had to acquire by a certain age, along with owning a car and buying a house, because that’s what she thinks society expects her to do. Her challenge is in not treating the kid as a possession.
No.
She’s a selfish, attention-seeking b!#ch.
This is what happens when a Beta-Male and a Feminist have a daughter. I am going to assume these are leftists as well.
We, on the right side of reality, … may be deplorable, but we don’t need psychiatric counseling as part of raising our children.
We are the sane.
OMG – this is so true. I only have personal experience to judge by, but social workers and people on the left ALWAYS seem to have messed up kids. In the early years, they treat the child as an important person to be listened and deferred to and then when the awful teen-age years hit, the parents (especially the mothers) always wonder “What happened?” On my street in Toronto, everyone referred to the social worker’s daughters as the “Heavenlies”(names of Angelique and Celeste) because they were clearly “Spawn of the Devil”. At the ages of 5 and 3, they would threaten the other children with “I will beat you up if you don’t play with me!” None of the other parents would allow their children to play with them. Their parents would say “Now, now, we mustn’t do that!”. The Heavenlies would just ignore their parents and continue with their rampages. They would be in their late 20’s now. I shudder to think how they turned out.
And why does she want her husband all to herself? So she can make coarse jokes at dinner about which of the pretty boys at the New York restaurant she wishes would screw her instead. Oh, she’s plenty narcissistic, Linda.
(Read the coda of the NYT article yourself if you doubt me.)
I dare say that the only reason the husband hasn’t flung his wife and her brat out long before now is that they live in a blue state and she’d easily walk off with his life savings and much more of his income than he could afford to spare and still be able to live in all but the most “diverse” and dangerous neighbourhoods in New York City.
Wait till the daughter turns 14…..
Single children are universally nuts. There is no debate. When people had 10 kids, the other 9 kids policed behavior more than any parent. They all quickly learned to conform.
Single children are universally nuts. There is no debate.
See my earlier comments. My parents made sure I was brought up properly, if you know what I mean, and I certainly wasn’t neglected.
so the kid wants to watch Kirk Russell’s ‘escape frum nuuu yawk’?
with mumsie wumsie’s attitude multiplied by magnitudes, it can be said the movie is a *preview* of the dystopic times to come.
hey earth, this is God. social media? have at ‘er !!!! dont say I didnt warn you though . . . . .
B A: you and me both.
our daughter is an only child, and some oh 8 or 10 yrs ago in her 30s, exceeded my salary level.
it was truly, one of the greatest moments in my life. I printed and framed the email.
when she was born, A sense of resolve rose up in me. I became *severely* protective of the child,
all the time keeping it under wraps. whenever we moved, I would scout the neighborhood for things like
aggressive dogs held back by flimsy neglected fences, fully intending to toss a cyanide laced steak over the fence.
I never said a word about it until she was all grown up and on her own, living in a condo 10 minute walk from
parliament hill. she has more money sense in her left pinky than I have ever had.
her 1st yr @ Carleton was paid by an Ontario scholarship.
she won the writing award hi school grad class.
I was actually kinda surprised the level of the protective instinct that rose up in me in those formative years.
by the time she was going out in the world, school and all that, I had packed on 50 pounds of *very* solid muscle fully capable of applying said strength to defend mine. EVERYTHING else took 2nd place to her welfare.
‘ya spoilin’ the kid hb’ they would all chime.
uuuhh, NO, *she* spoils *me*. never had the cops at the door, never complaints from teachers, neighbors, etc.
on top of that a razor sharp sense of humour. jabs at me: “dad, you’re a skid” “your sense of dress code is very different”
this thread headline shows just how far gone the world already is and getting far worse.
oh, and big mooma, spot on.
the city I grew up in the 60s had a drug counselor at the hospital. her badge of honour was the FACT her own kid frequented the
OD ward at times. her own kid constantly strung out on street drugs. oh what empathy.
I went to school with her daughter who was very shy and reserved but lacked the ‘penash’ of a substance dependent.
Congratulations on having such a fine upstanding daughter.
My parents imposed strict discipline on me while I was growing up. If I’d done something wrong, if my mother didn’t deal with, my father surely would have.
They must have done something right. The only time I was ever before a magistrate was in citizenship court and I was never involved with drugs. I also got one of the best educations in the world, I’m a registered member of a respected profession, and I’m a member of Mensa.
Member of “mensa” is not a badge to wear in my opinion. They offered me free “membership” when I took them to task for trolling for $$$$$$ in a magazine add. I have no use for mensa, as they are loaded with a lot of fools who try looking down on people. There was a group of mensa members who started up a new group, densa, were there were more relaxed and got together for the fun of it. My SIL and his friend went to several mensa meetings, and eventually came to the same conclusion as I did, too many of the members were elitists:-((((
they are loaded with a lot of fools who try looking down on people
Fools like Dr. Isaac Asimov, Sir Clive Sinclair, Scott Adams, Geena Davis, and Buckminster Fuller?
https://www.mensa.org/prominent-mensans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mensans
hb
Your post is very moving.
Starting at “our daughter” and ending, 4 paragraphs later at “spot on”, is probably where my eyes welled up a little bit!
BTW: In today’s READERS’ TIPS… I posted a song by Corey Hart named after today’s date, “Third of June.” Incidentally, Corey Hart wrote this song for his daughter because it is the day of her birth. He must have felt the same as you. This little bit of trivia is in the comments after the song.
You forgot to mention how lucky your daughter is.