Mom column: Response
Here's are excerpts from another reader's comment about The Telltale Signs of Motherhood, a column that first appeared in the Family section on Thursday.
I started things in a backwards fashion ... I read the author response written by Renee Kirchner, then the e-mail that caused the response and finally the dreaded and ummmmm apparently offensive article that made H. Johnson really hot under the collar, to use a parlance of his time, because this man sounds like he might come from an entirely different era then the one we, the rest of the world, are living in. Needless to say, I'm a mom, I work half days at the office so that I can drop off and pick up my son at school ... I choose to work to keep my brain alert and healthy. I feel this is the better option for me than to be home all the time (learned after staying home the first three years with him). I think that the women who choose to stay home with their children, and are happy doing it, are incredible, but no less dedicated than I am. Love is love, respect is respect, and as long as those two things are shown in the home, the child should and will say, "Thank you, Mom, for being just the way you were."
R. Rayburn
Dallas TX
Read the column and additional comments and author response on this blog.