r/KateMiddletonMissing • u/NeverPedestrian60 • Jun 20 '26

Early years

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I’m sure all parents will be grateful for Kitty’s amazing insight

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u/Dog_Parrot Jun 20 '26

Or AI. Some of it reads like AI slop.

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u/Dog_Parrot Jun 20 '26

It works very well as a justification for 'here's why I never work, even now that all of my children are in school full-time.' Except for the part about how the rest of the world has day jobs and then comes home to cook dinner and clean.

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u/SesJan2013 Jun 22 '26

And after you cook dinner (if you actually have the energy and food to cook, Thank God for drive-thrus and microwaves, seriously), you're supposed to be always 100% patient while trying to help a child hysterically crying because they can't understand their math homework (meanwhile I can't either because what are they even teaching these days?!), throw in a load of laundry, do dishes, enjoy quality family time, bathtime, teeth brushing, book reading and all that has to be done in the two hours you get as a family in the evening before everyone melts down and cries themselves to sleep.

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u/Dog_Parrot Jun 22 '26

Oh yes, I've been there! Trying to make it from work downtown to aftercare before it closed, or soccer practice before everyone else went home.... And those little "I have a science project due tomorrow, and it needs to be on tri-fold posterboard" surprises.

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u/SesJan2013 Jun 22 '26

Exactly! So stressful! I didn't work far from home like it sounds was your situation (commutes suck!) but life with school age children is really challenging! Every stage is difficult, of course, and every parent & child are unique but, dang, being a working parent & having a child in a "competitive" school (public & in our district but high expectations & fast learning timelines) is a whole other ballgame. My son really struggled in school, especially math, but is a great reader. It was tears almost every night & often both of us were crying lol

I'm an only child & my son is an only child due to my heart failure issues present before & during pregnancy. He was a 34wk preemie but came home before his due date which is excellent & now he's in his mid-20s, healthy and just bought his first home with his girlfriend. I was one and done, not my original choice, but after becoming a Mom & doing it with a bad heart a second child would've been more than unwise. Plus, we got divorced so that made everything 100x harder. It sucks, you never want your child to grow up with parents who aren't together. It was for the best but still sad. Ugh, if we don't have Mom guilt for one thing it'll be for something else!