They had a boy – and right from his birth, there was no connection between mother and the infant boy, Kevin. She never really wanted to have children but she did want to give her husband a child. This is the story of a mother, a reluctant mother. So I understand that you can get the urge to do something to your kids but I still think there’s a long way from getting the urge to actually doing it. I have never done anything to my kids – but I did break the glass in our wood burning stove once while being really sick and still having to take care of a very demanding kid. I know that your kids can drive your crazy and maybe you suffer from lack of sleep and then suddenly, you snap. The highs and lows.Īfter I had kids, I’ve been asked several times if I could understand when parents shook their kids so hard that the child were damaged by it. She gets all those emotion that a mother goes through. Lionel Shriver doesn’t have children but still she gets it. Why, then, did we take the stake of all we had and place it all on this outrageous gamble of having a child? (p.14)īefore reading this book, I would have said that there are things you just don’t get until you have kids of your own.
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