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Topic of the Day: Boundaries
A meeting at Felix's intended preschool yielded a conversation about boundary setting between parents and children. I wasn't surprised that it popped up. Everyone is talking about it in different ways, mostly with reference to children older than Felix.
Last week's New York Times Sunday Style Section ran a piece called "Mommy Is Truly Dearest" about grown women who count on their mothers to listen to and comment on the intricate details of their sex lives, among other things.
Jamie Lee Curtis recently wrote a rather scathing piece about the bad parenting that created Paris Hilton's whiney plea to her mother that having to do some time in the clink for breaking the law wasn't fair. Her point is that people should be more interested in being parents to their children than friends with them. As I said, this is not really an issue for me yet. If I tried to be Felix's "friend" as opposed to his mother, he and I would be wandering around in the living room, lost endlessly in a pile of books and Lego.
Is there a particular appeal in abdicating parenting in favor of being child's buddy? It seems a bit odd since one only gets to be a parent with a very small number of people whereas one has the potential to be friends with scads and scads of folks. Misanthropists excepted, of course.
Anyway, what did my conversation about all of this yield, you ask? Once again I have been told that I should really take a look at The Blessing of the Skinned Knee.
Parenting texts. If only I could glean this information from my pile of mysteries.
posted by Elise at 8:32 AM
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