"I've got some advice for you! Pull my finger!"
So. You’ve been a parent for a day. For a week. For a month. For EVER it seems. I have no doubt that you’ve got some advice to share! So I’m asking you now to share your thoughts. What would be the ONE piece of advice you would like to pass on to new parents? Just choose one. You know, a post-partum piece of advice. Something beyond “Whatever you do, don’t look at the placenta!” Sure, the placenta is like a huge metaphor for parenthood. It comes out after the baby. It’s frightening as all hell, but it’s also miraculous and cool!
Ah. Placentas. So distracting! OK, back to the subject at hand. So, oh fabulous bastions of parental wisdom, what advice do you want to pass down to new generations of parents? One sentence. That’s your assignment.
Send it to me via email. Reply to my Facebook page. Phone me. Twitter it. Use that Google+ thing. Or reply in comments here. I really want to hear what you have to say. And, of course, I want to selflessly share it with the rest of the blogosphere! I’ll play too! Most likely I’ll write more than a sentence because HEY, IT’S MY IDEA!
Process those horrific nightmare moments you’ve worked so hard to forget, synthesizing the terror down to a sentence. Or that unbelievable moment of epiphany, when you just… totally got that thing. Then write it down. Refine it. Craft your sentence. And then send it to me. email: terry@mothermirth.com
Bring it on!