We are striving to become teachers and we all like kids, it is a given. Being a woman this must then mean that the next logical step, at some point in my life, is to have a child myself. I have made the conscientious choice not to have children and this is unbelievable to people. I have heard that since I am going to be a teacher I would be a great mother, that I should love to have a child of my own. This is not the case for me. After serious thought and great deal of talking about it with my husband we have come to the conclusion that having a child is not in our life plan. For me there is no actual one reason why we have made this decision. We just both know in our hearts that it is not something we would like to do and this is very hard for family, friends and even relative strangers to understand. I get questioned all the time about this decision and am informed that I will probably change my mind in the future. I know I won't but I just smile and nod to make the conversation stop. Sometimes I feel like saying maybe at some point in the future you are going to decide that ,insert what is really important to the person, is not important to you anymore. I think this question is going to come up in my teaching career, from fellow teachers, parents of students and the students themselves all the time. It is a logical assumption that most married people want children, I know that I am not the norm. This is were making the difference the norm is going to be so important to my classroom philosophy.
See you all tomorrow at the museum.
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