Hasn't everyone always known that motherhood involves a lot of boring grunt work along with whatever pleasures you find there? Has that secret really been so well kept? Was it just my mom who made sure I knew?

Is it because celebrities are everywhere having babies and "baby bumps" that every periodical in the US and abroad must run articles explaining "The Truth About Mothering" to the rest of us?

And while I know exaggerating to make a point is a fair rhetorical tactic, what's with the totally specious logic? Either you are a pathetic at-home who can't see past the diapers or you are a real, intelligent woman who is bored stiff by parenting. Why, oh why, are straw men/women de rigeur in every debate from the Mommy Wars to the war in Iraq? Does nobody know better?

As for this woman -- of course she finds her children boring. She's never bothered to get to know them. And I don't say that because she's a working mom, but because according to her description she flees from them at every opportunity and has since their infancy.

And of course every comment she recieves to that effect will fall on totally deaf ears, because there are enough people out there to say, Oh, you're just hearing this because you're telling an unpopular truth. Yuck!!!!!

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