I love my kids!!!
As the summer holidays draw to a close, and the thought of not seeing my kids all day every day fast approaches, I’m feeling a bit melancholy. Yes, we’ve had our fair share of rainy hazy stir crazy afternoons and cat fights between the kids like you wouldn’t believe! But they are both the age now where there won’t be that many more summers to enjoy with my little ones. I’m sure it’ll be no time when they’re mooching in their bedrooms playing computer games, or off out down town with their gang of mates.
Aleck aged 3 & Natasha 7
As someone who has signed the Optimum Population Trust’s (OPT) Stop at Two pledge, and is not planning on giving birth for a third time, I am trying to appreciate and enjoy every moment I have with my small children. Unless we all do something, worldwide, there are going to be another 2.4 billion people on the planet by 2050 so having a smaller family – just one or two children instead of three or more – helps to reverse population growth. And by reversing population growth, we’d be taking another green step towards environmental survival for all.
Aleck & Chilli (our one year old Gordon Setter rescue)
I haven’t ruled out adopting more children though, as with approximately 85,000 children in care in the UK in 2009, I’d rather give one or two children a loving caring secure home than go through another pregnancy which quite frankly I’m pretty rubbish at anyway.
Stick with me on my journey through this merry old life and see if I do decide to go down the emtionally challenging adoption route. Would love to hear your comments on how many kids you have and whether you ever think about how many people there are on our pretty little planet. The BBC news reports today (27th August 2009) that the UK population grew by 408,000 in 2008 – the biggest increase for almost 50 years.
My family were a foster family from when I was around 10 years old. It was with out a doubt the hardest job ever, but also the most rewarding. Good luck if you do look further at adopting
Thank you Pippa, did you find it difficult as a teenager to deal with other children coming and going all the time?
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That dog is beyond gorgeous. Too too gorgeous.
Two of my friends were adopted after rough starts with fantastic success. Another spent all his life in foster care but is incredibly close to his foster ’siblings’ and mum still. Which goes to show that sometimes the right family for some kids isn’t the necessarily the one they’re born into.
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