Re: Are parents in danger of becoming second-class citizens?
because we’re still the same people, we just have tiny humans to look after now. being a parent shouldn’t mean you stop doing the things you love entirely. yes, within reason you must make changes that work for you and your baby-- i highly doubt the husband and i will ever have a date night with the kid accompanying us, but if we’re out during the day, then everywhere is fair game as far as i’m concerned and if the kid has a meltdown, well, it happens. how about other people try to be tolerant and accepting for a change instead of expecting me to the tolerant one all the time? as for restos with play places… i’m not brain dead, i just gave birth. those places were and always will be annoying for me and i resent the suggestion that just because i now have a kid, i can only hang out in chuck-e-cheese shudder or mcdonalds. my taste buds haven’t died, sara, have some pity! i refuse to eat a filet o’ fish in the precious time i get to go out of the house and be normal instead of staying in with a newborn in hermit mode. you can’t make me 