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News flash: "Author Falls Prey to Common Myths About Parenting"
Myth: you should have children when you're ready
Truth: you will never really be ready
Myth: you should have children when you know what you are getting into
Truth: you will never know until you have them. give up the search for forewarning.
Myth: children are expensive, messy and troublesome
Truth: OK, that's not just a myth. But it is easy to articulate and be understood about what PROBLEMS children present. It is hard to articulate and is very easy to sound hopelessly mushy and inane about the wonders and the benefits of children...but they are very real.
So I would tell Mr Smith, etc: Jump in the water or don't, but don't spend the rest of your life contemplating what the jump might feel like, because you will never know without jumping.
