Random Parenting Vent

Yes, I'm gonna bitch again.  If you don't have kids, don't feel obligated to read any further until you do have offspring.  Unless you've offered me an opinion on my parenting.  Then read on, and be warned.

Oh, and at some point, I'll stop bitching so much.  I hope.

So, the kid is going to be starting preschool next month.  Thank gawd.  I love the kid, and I love my time with her, but damnit if I don't need a break once in a while so I can work or shower without a damn audience.  And what the EFF is wrong with needing a break?  I'm freakin' mother of the year, and I know it.  And I'm better when I can get breaks here and there, especially when my husband goes on vacation for a year at a time for work.  (If you get my drift.)  I'm trying to run a business, homeschool the kid, and keep this house from falling into a cesspool of ick of our own making.

I belong to a few mothers' groups online.  And a few remarks lately have pissed me right off.  All the way from other moms who put their kids in preschool getting criticized, to the "I don't NEED a break from my kids." or "My kids just go to get social interaction with other kids." or "We just do it so that she gets a chance to do fun artwork."  Well aren't you fucking Mother Universe 2011?  Needing a break once in a while is not a bad thing.  I'm tired of people making it out to be.  I feel sorry for people whose only definition of themselves is MOM.  What kind of favor are you doing your kids?

Oh, and don't get me started on the whole "homeschooling is bad, how will the kid learn to be social???" Um, my kid is more social than pretty much ALL of her peers and most adults.  I do NOT want her socialized....in other words, wearing skimpy ass skirts, showing off her butt cheeks and having sex in an alley at the age of 12 like a lot of other kids these days.  I do not feel like being a grandmother in my 40s (or 50s, for that matter. Dear Kid, keep your pants on. Love, Mom.)  Also, I like the fact that my 2.5 year old speaks like an adult, TO ADULTS and kids alike.  She is (the majority of the time) respectful, well mannered, and polite.  And she even knows what sharing is!!!!!  GASP!

Anyway, that's all for now.  I'm off to dust my plaques from years 2008, 2009, and 2010.  I'm also using my first preschool-break for mommy day to write my acceptance speech for AWESOME KICKASS MOTHER OF THE YEAR WHO CAN ROUNDHOUSE CHUCK NORRIS' FACE IN .02 MILLISECONDS 2011.