If they would just push the Kodak Moments memories out of their minds, they wouldn't have kyds.:cool
Every moo thinks it is gonna be some sweet, kissy-face experience, and have a "it's never gonna happen to me" attitude about the bad things that could occur. Every kyd/family is perfect and every parunt successful in making a perfect kid, teen and young adult.
No one tells them to wake up to the reality of birth defects, etc. or bratly ending up a delinquent or pregnant at age 16.
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My SIL (a former aerobics instructor) was like a "valley girl" in the 80's.
Everything was about looks and keeping up and above the Jones. She had her first kyd in the 90's and the brat is a real porker, from the beginning because SILmoo is a terrrible parunt and doesn't make her kids do anything they don't want to, so she fed her sugar and hot dogs all day, every day. I'm talking huge.
2d brat is slight autistic or something, and is a handful. The bad parunting doesn't help that either. Of course, he didn't get all the help he needed b/c moo and duhd were in denial about the whole thing until a teacher intervened.
But since she was such a superficial boob in her youth, you just know these kyds are not what she had in mind when she had them. She wanted Leave it to Beaver meets Marsha Brady. (you would understand if you knew her) I'm sure she is miserable she can't dress her girl brat like a princess since she is a moose, and I'm sure she never expected autism to happen to her so, hates that she has to deal with a less than perfect son. I have read that autism occurs more if the FATHER is over 40, well, her hubby was over forty and she was over 35, so maybe she should have researched that possibilty before sprogging. But now she doesn't have the so-called perfect life she always pictured with sprroging, and now the former beauty queen looks 50 instead of 40. Poor Moo in law.:bawl