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Looking ahead is always a terrifying prospect, even vacation planning seems so fraught with decisions and problems to solve. I think about what I won't be so good at teaching my kid in a few years when he actually will need to know specific things. Will I be able to teach him how to read or ride a bicycle? Who will teach him how to play poker (as I wish someone had taught me at an impressionable age)? So while I was put out by the tone and items on New York Magazine's incredibly snarky and pretty useless gag article "The Outsourced Parent", I did think to myself: "Perhaps all is not lost."
It is terribly easy to ponder one's shortcomings when raising one's kid. I know I fear I will pass on my clutter tolerance to my child. My husband worries that his lack of athleticism will result in a child who never learns sports (though he does have one grandfather and at least one uncle who can probably be coaxed to step in). Will my lack of kitchen organization and enthusiasm give Felix some sort of dining handicap or render him unable to cook for himself? I wasn't bad at math, but I'm not sure what kind of a tutor I'll be in a few years.
So while I hate the tone of the piece and think that the items on their list are silly and that the whole piece is pretty dimwitted in itself, it is comforting to be reminded that one needed possess all talents. One can find help. And with any luck that help will be cheaper than most of the suggestions the magazine gives.
posted by Elise at 10:27 AM
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