Parenting
One of the newest shows to hit the Australian TV screen is Desperate Housewives, not surprises here I'm sure. Suze and I are not normally ones for the popular sitcom or type show and tend towards spy/drama shows like Alias and West Wing.

I think that the thing we find most interesting is the connection with the characters, especially the mum with 4 kids. Last night's episode saw her leaving the kids at the side of the road for being naughty in the car...something we can TOTALLY appreciate.

Anyway...its a fun show and will no doubt become a regular fave.

Still on the parenting track...there was this absolute load of bollocks in The Age yesterday, which I just totally disagree with. To use a classic quote I learnt last year...."It's not even wrong!"

The crux of the message (as I took it) was that parenting is mundane, boring and repetitive, with only 5% YES 5% of it being rewarding and fulfilling. What a load of....

My belief about parenting and for that matter everything one does in life is that it is up to the individual to make it WOW! (to steal a Tom Peters line). Doing the 9-5 for the corporate man with 5 meetings every day I would suggest can be boring. Writing status reports and issues documents mundane. Handling calls in a call centre repetitive.

It is up to you to make it interesting, fun, exciting...whatever it is that you find fulfilling.

Years ago my mother said to me "If it was fun they wouldn't call it work". This is a truism which has stuck in my mind since then and which defines the anti-vision for my life.

Sure, parenting has its repetitive bits, its boring bits and lots of bits involving partially consumed food and poo ;-) but it has so much more to offer.

Parenting has its hugely more fulfilling aspects of watching a child grow every day, being a hero and role model to your child, watching them do amazing things if you can let go, and sharing experiences with them everyday which you will treasure for ever.

When parenting becomes a chore, I suggest expanding your horizons. Look for other opportunities in which you can be a parent and meet some of your other needs. Become involved in your child's kinder, write or blog about the good aspects of parenting and share your learning experiences, take your kids to playgrounds and write them up in playground finder.

Treasure these days like no others for in 40 years time you will want nothing more than to relive them.