to share the things they actually HATE about parenting, and the answers were honestly super refreshing."I genuinely love being a mother, but I fucking hate going to the park. Any park or playground can burn to the ground.""It’s beyond boring, inconvenient to go, filthy, germ-infested, and unsafe. I live in an area that’s hot eight months out of the year and it’s actually torture to have to stand on a concrete playground in the sun.
And as a bonus, my brain sometimes spirals to these crazy life or death what-ifs involving my kids and it’s terrifying.""It feels like the whole world is going to shit. Nazis are back, we keep moving closer to Atwood's [, the world is dying, rent and necessities are so expensive they feel like luxuries. What did I bring my kid into?!""All the food making — breakfast, lunch, dinner. It’s exhausting! Especially if you don’t like cooking.
"Most of the time she wouldn't have to go, but as we were training, we had to give the benefit of the doubt. Once on a plane, she made me take her twice over a two-hour flight. Those are already casket-sized rooms, so imagine sharing it with a climbing toddler. Port-a-potties were her favorite. *grimace*""I hate being a parent, and if I knew then what I know now, I’d be blissfully child-free.""I hate being touched constantly. My grocery bill is absurd.