When I saw the headline in the Irish Times “Regretting being a stay-at-home parent: ‘You’re sitting at home doing housework and you’re bored out of your tree” with the lead-in ‘Parenting Taboos: Admitting that you feel bored, unfulfilled, or even regret your choice to stay at home with your children is difficult but not uncommon’, I thought here we go again, yet another piece in the rich tradition of journalism warning women to never take time out to care for their families at home.
This came after the lovely piece ‘There are times I regret having kids. They’re adults, and it’s now that I’m regretting it, which seems strange.’ Parenting Taboos: Regretting parenthood, or wishing you hadn’t had some of your children, is a deeply guarded secret for some parents.’
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