Underachievers, a.k.a. parents

[lupinesque]

Cindy wrote:

> there is a certain choice you can make as an adult 
> that will get you labeled as an underachiever every time.  That 
> choice is the choice to stop working and stay home with your kids.  
> 
> Good grief!  Work colleagues immediately counsel you on the depths 
> of the mistake you are making.  Parents want to know why you are 
> throwing away all that schooling.  Female friends ask how you can 
> bear to be dependent on a *man*.  And everyone, including people 
who 
> have only known you for five minutes, asks, "But aren't you *bored*?

Oh, yeah.  Raising children is really uninteresting, requires no 
intelligence or creativity whatsoever, and is all about being 
dependent instead of, oh, say, depended-upon.

Criticism from one's parents sounds the weirdest, though.  They 
thought you were getting all that education in order to do *nothing 
but* work for pay for the rest of your life?  And exactly who would 
they prefer to raise their grandchildren?

Amy
who confesses that after a day with a four-year-old, she *is* bored, 
and wonders if it's possible to farm them out every other day