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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Is it me, or is finishing off food your child has spat out, or, arguably worse, in, a vile and disgusting practice indicating a total lack of self-respect and no boundaries? Or does my revulsion simply show that I'm a bad, bad, Bad, Terrible Mother who has inadequately bonded with her children?
If you think about it, this sort of thing is just a particularly fucked-up instantiation of Competetive Parenting. See the depths of abjection to which I am happy to sink in the name of mother-love! Depths from which I would have recoiled during those selfish times before I entered the hallowed state of parenthood! Oh what, you mean you have your own plate of food? Well sure, if you have the time to prepare a meal for yourself...
See this is why J thinks I overanalyse...
2 Comments:
A relative of mine who is a bigshot psychiatrist in the UK once defined "father" as "man who eats children's leftovers".
Certainly true for me. I draw the line if it's been already chewed though.
I read somewhere online that a father's 'a man with a photo in his wallet where there used to be money'.
It's not the leftovers I have a problem with. But if it's already been through the preliminary stages of digestion then it goes in the worm bin!
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