Parents, do you like

[Sherri]

I love my kids more then life itself. I can not even imagine my life without such wonderful kids. I consider myself really blessed to be a parent.
I'm the Mom that cries every year on the first day of school. I LIVE for summer break when we can have carefree time together and I have to share them less. I don't understand anyone who doesn't think its a privlege to be a parent.

 

[Freyja]

I love them, like them, adore them, respect them, enjoy their company...well you get the pattern

Heck, I have 4 and sometimes think I´d like to have more

 

[jimmalru80]

I love my three children more than you can imagine and my life would be empty without them. When the girls go to college in August/September of 2008, I have no clue how I'm going to get by. It is frightening and right now I just don't want to deal with it. I can't imagine life without my children in it.

 

[rt2dz]

That's why I have a mantra: If K-- can do it, so can I.

She's amazing. And she volunteers at the elementary school one full day a week and heads the PTO for the preschool. Seriously, I think I hate her from time to time.

 

[FayeW]

I have 2 children, 12 & 10. There are many days when I have had the exact same thoughts as the woman the OP described. I seriously have said that we should have just stuck to our four legged family.

Now, that said, I love both of my kids, but the oldest one is a lot harder to love. I am not sure that this family will make it through her teen years intact. I have literally counted the days until she goes to university, and I don't care if I have to stand on a corner with a monkey and a tin cup to pay for it, she will be living in the dorm!

In a lot of ways, she is a really neat kid, and I am sure she will be an incredible adult. She creates a lot of conflict because she is very jealous of her little brother. She refuses to acknowledge that he is treated differently, because he behaves differently. He plays hockey and soccer, and I know that she resents the time we spend with him going to games and practices, but at the same time she refuses to participate in anything herself. We have offered diving, swimming, gymnastics, etc. She refuses. She did play soccer one year, to disastous results. She truly is her own worst enemy.

 

[delilah]

You might get a biased answer here, among people who post here. In my experience, most well adjusted parents love and like their kids, and don't begrudge the time and effort they spend on them. However, as a family physician, I have to share the observation that not all parents are so inclined. As a matter of fact, I have been surprised many times with attitudes of young mothers who don't want to pay any attention to their kids. I have more than one instance of young women who have abandoned more than one child to the care of their own mother, and in some instances, their siblings. Actually,it's a suprisingly substantial proportion. On the other hand, I recently had a grandmother whose husband was being transferred to the state where their children lived, and she didn't want to go, because she didn't want to have anything to do with the grandchildren. She had spent Christmas with the children, and couldn't stand having her grandchildren around. I have never met that attitude before, it just left me speechless.

Now, there are times when I wish I could have the freedom to do what I want when I want to like before my son, but, I still care for him, and do what I need to do for him.

 

[sm4987]

My parents never came right out and said so, but their non-verbals made it perfectly clear that parenthood was a major inconvenience in their lives. But I know they still loved me and my sister. They just didn't like chores and responsibility and schedules and the pressure of supporting another human.

I love my kids and like them more and more everyday. I want to spend more and more time with them. Whenever DH and I find ourselves with spare time, we always want to spend it with the kids instead on a date by ourselves. Flame if you want, but in 14.5 years of parenthood we've had less than one date per year. We like it like that.

We haven't spent much time at all away from my kids at all in the 12 years that we have been married. Maybe 1 date a year. We too love our kids so much that it's hard to stay away from them. Also it's just so much fun to be with them, it's just better for our family right now!