I don’t want my children gone, but I am so sick of being a good parent

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After decades raising her children, Tegan Bennett Daylight needs a rest. As her youngest finishes school, she reflects that the children are beautiful - but they are also dickheads

s the end of my last child’s schooling approaches, I’m thinking about freedom. I know, once you’ve had children you always have them – Francis Bacon called them “hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises”. I don’t want my children gone forever, nor do I have any great enterprises in mind. Like you, I just need a rest. I’m so sick of being a good parent. A good enough parent. An ok parent. A shitty parent.

I’m anxious about everything! Anxious about anxiety, to begin with. So much of it! Everywhere I look!Anxious about having failed to teach my kids how to clean a toilet!

 

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