2002-03-12 - 7:15
Why can't my Computer Science classes come as easy as my Psych stats class to me? I just had a conceptual exam for Psych stats and I'm positive that I perfected it. I didn't even study much and I still rocked! I just wish I could always feel that confident in taking ANY of my exams.
Anyway, I was working all weekend (from 3-11) and it was tiring. There were 6 nurses and we had about 30 patients in the unit. That's really good on staffing's part coz somedays we'd have 4 nurses for 42 patients. However, it was really busy for me. The work and the doctors just won't stop coming. That means loads of orders to be put in the computer. I got them all done though. In fact I still finished early on Sunday, that I was just sitting there from 9:30p staring at the clock, wishing for it to tick-tock a tad faster.
It was interesting at work this weekend. There's this one nurse, Jen who left me with something to ponder on. (That's not really her real name.) She often talks to her husband or her son on the phone, and she usually tells me about her conversations afterwards. This weekend in particular, she was telling me about her kids who are so dependent on her. They're in their late 20s, and 2 of them live at home still, with no jobs and are FULLY-supported by mom and dad. Jen was saying that when her kids were in College, she and her husband paid for everything. They're still paying for some loans up to now. They find out years later that they even paid for their drugs when the kids were experimenting. She and her husband just kept on giving them money to the point that they didn't even know what they were paying for anymore. One line from her stuck out in my head even hours later. She said, "I give them everything they ask for, now they're so dependent on me. That DOES NOT make me a good mom."
So true it is. I do agree with her. Then again I was thinking to myself that making sure that your kids become independent and self-sufficient is NOT a justification nor an excuse for not answering to one's parental responsibilities.
Does this mean that parenthood, or more appropriately parent-ING, is another one of those catch-22 situations? I'm beginning to think that it is, but I sure hope that it's not.
