Difficulty conceiving? Thinking of having your own children but worried about the commitment and loss of your independence? Concerned about overpopulation? We have the answer.
Two loving but frazzled parents seek like-minded couple to share the raising of their wonderful but demanding children. The older child, Elena, is a bright and fiesty two-year-old who loves her little brother, bathtub fingerpaints, stickers, and smelling things around the house. The younger child, Ben, is a generally happy eight-month-old who enjoys sucking on anything within arms' reach and has remarkably flexible and expressive tongue. Children are available two weekends and ten weekdays a month, holidays to be negotiated. Prospective co-parents must be well-educated, progressive, and with a commitment to hands-on parenting. NPR addiction a plus. Send statement of interest and audiotape of reading "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See?" ten times (yes, ten times in a row--no cheating please) to Jennifer Spande, 100 When Do I Get My Life Back Lane, No Playground Here, Cambodia 99999. Only finalists will be contacted.
"Growing, bearing, mothering or fathering, supporting, and at last letting go of an infant is a powerful and mundane creative act that rapturously sucks up whole chunks of life." --From Louise Erdrich's The Blue Jay's Dance
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I think humour is a wonderful alternative to murdering your children. Congratulations, sweetie, to discovering the secret of surviving parenting young children! Loved it!
Love,
Mom
We would deifinitely be interested if the distance problem could be negotiated. And we have the advantage of already loving both of the children. Things being how they are, however, all we can say is, "Deal with it! The time will come when they are half way around the world and you will really miss them!"
Love,
Mom/Beth
would you consider a trade - one pink haired, nose pierced 16 year old who knows everything - for your two sweetie hearts?
~Kacey~
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