Peeve #2 - Immature Parents

This isn't so much of a rant or a vent as just a huge peeve of mine. While having a conversation earlier with a good friend of mine, I realized that I've grown up in so many ways - especially since having my daughter. Living away from "home" and the place I grew up has helped to kind of raise me in a way as well, but becoming a parent - responsible in all ways/shapes/forms, loving another living/breathing being as much as I love my daughter, and caring for someone 24/7/365 - has really made me grow up in ways that I didn't even realize over the short period of time that I've been a mom. I've been mostly lucky with my daughter, she's a good kid - most of the time (every kid has their moments, some worse or more than others...) - and I find myself to be incredibly blessed and lucky to have such a beautiful, healthy, well-mannered (she says please and thank you, and beep beep now too!), and loving kiddo! All the things she knows, I've taught her. All the things she does, she's copying me. All the looks she gives me, they're either an exact replica of my husband or myself. It is the most insane thing ever! 

Well, by me growing up I guess I just assume in a way (I know, never assume anything - it only ends up making and ass out of you and me) that all parents have taken this same leap and grown up - in their own ways of course - and become the "responsible" parent they're supposed to be.. Right?? WRONG!!! Goodness I couldn't be more wrong about a particular assumption!!! I've actually found, in personal encounters, that there are sooooooooooooooooooo many parents - especially "young" parents but not secluded to them - that refuse to grow up. 

Parties? Sure! Bar hoping? Sure! Drinking until we're silly? Sure! -- What kind of life is that to live when you've got a CHILD that is depending on you to care for them, to make sure they've got all the things they could need or want in life? Honestly, I think it's crap! I think it's a bullshit way of getting away from life for a little while - but what good does it really do?? At the end of the day (or night whichever you prefer to say) your child, your spouse, your life.. they're still there. They're all waiting for you after the drunken stupor wears off, after the hangover is gone, after the "good time" is had.. everything you tried to escape is still there! 

I know some parents who occasionally go out for a couple drinks every once in a while with their friends while their hubby/wifey stay home to care for the kiddo(s).. that's cool. That's responsible. Sometimes going out for drinks with your girl/guy friends is so much needed, that's cool! What I'm referring to are the parents who drop their kid off with family or at a sitter on a REGULAR basis just so they can get shitty every week(end) with their friends. Give me a break! You wanted to become a parent, if you didn't then you should've kept your legs closed or put a rain jacket on "Little Mr."!!! 

Anyhow, I think being immature parent is crap. Grow up. Take responsibility. Be a parent!!