Comments on: Flexibility (And I’m Not Talking About Yoga)

By: Living Joyously vs. Flipping Off the Holidays

Living Joyously vs. Flipping Off the Holidays — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:00:20 +0000

[…] I woke up this morning feeling panicky about all I have to do. All that stuff. And then feeling like a schmuck and a hypocrite because I’m talking the talk, but not walking the walk. […]

By: Ashley @ Just Another Mom of 2

Ashley @ Just Another Mom of 2 — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:22:29 +0000

Flexibility is not one of my finer traits. However, since having children, I have am uch different approach. I can move around the country on a yearly basis for my husband’s job, change plans when necessary because of a screaming baby, and give up on that “perfect” photo that’s never going to happen.

It may or may not have taken me until baby #2. Ahem.

I hope that I too remember what it was like, because it can be so tough to manage it all! Kids dance to their own tune, and keeping up with it can be exhausting.

By: Aidan Donnelley Rowley @ Ivy League Insecurities

Aidan Donnelley Rowley @ Ivy League Insecurities — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:58:53 +0000

I yearn to roll with it, to be perfectly flexible. And, sometimes, I feel it, this coveted flexibility. But more often than not I am aware of a rigidity in me, a resistance. I think this is life, but boy do I try 🙂

By: SuziCate

SuziCate — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:32:07 +0000

It’s good to be flexible, but some people are downright selfish and forget the needs of their children. I know someone who complained on FB about being in the ER in the early am of Thanksgiving with a sick child, and then early Black Friday bragged on FB that they had this same sick child out and shopping! What is wrong with some people, I wonder.

By: Joey @ Big Teeth & Clouds

Joey @ Big Teeth & Clouds — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:45:44 +0000

Speaking from my personal experience, I am forgetting. I have one really well behaved daughter age 5 1/2. I have a window of about 18 months around her age. This is a window of warm feelings toward other people’s children. I can’t stand any longer to be around the dirty diaper crowd and when my kid is nine, I’m sure the kindergarten set will once again be insufferable to me. Becoming a mother gave me this one great love for one child, it did nothing to improve my outlook on minors as a whole.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:09:51 +0000

parents who have forgotten about being parents drive me BATTY!

By: Paula Kiger

Paula Kiger — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:52:59 +0000

Well, I am glad I waited until I got home to really read this blog and enjoy it (and think about it). My kids are 11 and 14, so we are comfortably past some of that toddler constant supervision stuff. My daughter was babysitting a 14 month old Saturday (cutest kid in. the. world.!) and we had him with us at a big family gathering. When I finally sat down to eat, she asked me if I could hold him, and I pouted about the possibility of having to leave my food to help another caretaker out. WHAT?

But I, too, hope to be able to retain that memory of how trying those times can be (despite my slip on Saturday).

We all need to cut each other a break, especially if there are off-schedule kids in the mix!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:38:43 +0000

For us, the holidays are usually pretty easy. This isn’t a good thing, it’s a sad thing. Jason (my husband) lost both of his parents, so holidays are always spent with my family. He does have a sister, and we usually see her too, but for the most part, it’s always with my side of the family.

That being said, I’d consider myself flexible!

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Tweets that mention Flexibility (And I'm Not Talking Yoga) -- Topsy.com — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:51:09 +0000

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By: angela

angela — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:44:37 +0000

I’m pretty flexible, and I think it’s more natural than anything. I think it has to do with an overinflated sense of empathy that also makes me incapable of holding a grudge. It’s a trait that sounds good, but when I get burned by it, it sucks!

My in-laws are the picture of inflexibility in the sense that I wonder if maybe my husband was raised by wolves, because they don’t seem to remember AT ALL what it’s like to have little kids!