Remember a while back I wrote a piece called Does Parenting Make You Unhappy? It was in response to a piece in NY Magazine called All Joy and No Fun, which basically talked about the fact that while being a parent is a joy, there are aspects of it that are down right drudgery.

Anyway, the folks at CNN called and asked if Good Enough Mother would come and be part of a panel talking about it. So Stephanie Wilder Taylor, who wrote Sippy Cups Are Not For Chardonnay, Rachel Campos Duffy, TV personality and blogger at Parentdish.com and yours truly all chatted and debated the piece.

Stephanie and I seemed to have a similar viewpoint but host Vinnie Politan and Rachel had a different take (though Vinnie may have been playing devil’s advocate a little). But Rachel, who also wrote about the NY magazine article on her site, raised my ire when she said those who don’t enjoy parenting are “doing it wrong.”

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Oh you know how that gets our goat around here – when people tell us we’re doing it wrong. I always want to direct them to point number 10 on TEN FROM GEM! Check it out for yourself and see if you don’t agree!