Parental Blockage

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, and chances are you haven’t, you will have noticed a drop in the frequency of direct parenting related posts. It isn’t for a lack of content. Just this morning Tevye took off his pajamas and underwear to dance – because last summer watching the gymnastics he thought the leotards the gymnasts wore during the floor routine were their skin. Now, he routinely undresses to dance.

No, it is that most of what I have to say can be summed up in a paragraph or less. That does not make for good blogging. And if I gather up a few of these anecdotes or whatever, by the time I have enough to make a full blog post, they feel irrelevant.

Maybe I could write a blog post about Grace, now five months old today, had her four month well-baby visit and weighed in at 16 pounds 13 ounces, significantly larger than any of the other children. I could then make a joke about how she is the only one who was born before her due date as well.

But is that really a unique story?

What about the struggle my daughter is going through right now in 6th grade trying to balance participating in the school musical and keeping her grades up and homework completed? I don’t have any answers, there is no resolution to this and so all I could do is simply bring the topic up and have it be incomplete.

Xavier is doing great in Kindergarten, learning to read and whatnot. Simply chugging along, doing what he is supposed to.

I can not find drama and conflict to write about – at least conflict that would be appropriate to share. Yes, there is conflict, such as this morning when Dela, Xavier, Ciaran and Tevye were at the breakfast table and a couple of them were arguing. I don’t know what they were arguing about and when they get home from school today I am sure they won’t be able to remember what it was they were arguing about either.

So here I sit, wondering what to write.