Actually, stop digging is the answer. The question – what do you do when you find yourself in a hole?
Britney Spears didn’t stop digging. In fact she may have gone so far as to channel her inner Elvis.
Like Elvis, she was talented but surrounded herself with people that enabled her, agreed with what ever she said, and decided although she chose to have children; it wasn’t yet time for her to grow up herself.
Wrong.
If you feel sorry for her, don’t.
When you have children, you don’t necessarily have to come last, but you don’t come first either.
Perhaps it would have helped if she had read my book Because Kids Don’t Come With Manuals®: Contemporary Advice for Parents.
She could have seen 10 Things to Consider BEFORE Having Children… It is listed here:
10 Things to Consider BEFORE Having Children…
1. Would you want to have you as a parent?
2. Have there been times when you could have been more generous?
3. Do you treat the people that matter in your life as well as you should?
4. Is your relationship with your spouse strong enough to withstand the stress of children?
5. What sacrifices are you willing to make to be able to afford children?
6. What family traditions will you carry on, and what new traditions will you both create together?
7. What is your idea of quality family time?
8. How will you decide how to share family holidays?
9. Do you believe it is your job as a parent to tell a child what to think or how to think?
10. Is there something about your spouse that makes you look forward to becoming a parent, or is there something that has you concerned?
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Thank goodness the legal system acted in the best interest of the children.
We all know that although it is a lot of work to raise a child, it is still easier to build a child than it is to repair an adult.