“Maybe you don’t have that nurturing instinct"
September 16th 2010 07:40
“Maybe you don’t have that nurturing instinct”
– co-posted by Sadie & E
It seems that wanting to have children or having had children means you have a nurturing instinct, and if you don’t have children or don’t care to have children means you don’t have a nurturing instinct – this according to a couple of our friends, who are mums…of course...
Sure, there is a correlation between being nurturing and the motivation to want to reproduce. Surely there is also a correlation between nurturing and numerous other actions and roles – teaching, fostering animals or children, being a nurse, being a sister/wife…brother/husband, having pets, and the like.
After all, isn’t even caring for another or sharing with one another an act of nurturing…a nurturing instinct? ...or are we that *narrow minded* to assume that there is only the one paradigm (motherhood)?
– co-posted by Sadie & E
It seems that wanting to have children or having had children means you have a nurturing instinct, and if you don’t have children or don’t care to have children means you don’t have a nurturing instinct – this according to a couple of our friends, who are mums…of course...
Sure, there is a correlation between being nurturing and the motivation to want to reproduce. Surely there is also a correlation between nurturing and numerous other actions and roles – teaching, fostering animals or children, being a nurse, being a sister/wife…brother/husband, having pets, and the like.
After all, isn’t even caring for another or sharing with one another an act of nurturing…a nurturing instinct? ...or are we that *narrow minded* to assume that there is only the one paradigm (motherhood)?
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Comment by AmyHuang
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Some 'mum's complain they never get to travel.
Well - they had a choice!
Comment by Michaelie
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I am taking a leap into the nurturing pond myself...
I am going to try to grow a plant. It may end badly.
Comment by Lara M
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Just don't be ramming your choice down my throat
<lol> I'm sure the plant will blossom under your nurturing, Michaelie.
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Comment by Tracy
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Eek, some mums can be so self-righteous and scathing when it comes to these things. You can have children and not be particularly nurturing and you may not have children and have a strong nurturing soul. Blurghh to those global aspersions.
Good luck with your plantation, Mich. I just killed one through utter neglect.
Comment by Michaelie Clark
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It's still alive, kind of.
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