Observation

I've met some mothers lately who seem to have forgotten what it was like when their children were younger. They are older or my age with older children, but usually an only child. I can see the uneasiness in their eye when I suggest that I bring my children along too. The e-mail I've written saying I'd like to bring along one of my daughters sits languishing in their in-box without a reply. They don't want to talk about any parenting issues because to them - it seems - that a certain way of parenting is over. Now it's just the occasional maintenance checks and now it's all about themselves not their child. They almost seem to have reverted back to their child-less days, looking at me and my breastfeeding and my fatigue not so much with empathy as with disdain. If it's someone I don't know very well, I'm often surprised to hear that they even have children. I'm curious to know if I'll become this way too.