The Reality of Motherhood: Joy and Challenges
- Raising children is a fulfilling and natural desire for many, but it comes with its challenges.
- Motherhood requires responsibility and organization, limiting personal freedoms.
- Occasionally, the desire for personal irresponsibility can be overwhelming, but the joy of motherhood outweighs the challenges.
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Don't believe the press telling only the bad news that motherhood is all dirty nappies and sleepless nights which are said to cause mothers to abuse kids. When I got married, it seemed the most natural thing in the world that I would that I would have three babies in four years. Having children was what I had always wanted. I was fulfilled in my work and happy generally, but having children was the absolute high point. Fortunately my partner shared this view. But for some people, raising their children is a tough thing. Surely, raising children is a responsibility. You make a baby and you can't get drunk, stay out all night or go on holiday on impulse. In fact, you can't really have any arbitrary thought at all when everything you do has to be so well-organized. It's also true that I would love just occasionally to be totally irresponsible, unmindful of anyone's needs but my own. I remember the time I was seven months pregnant and struggled with a stroppy three-years-old son and a crawling one-year-old daughter. My back ached, and what is worse, I couldn't find the right colored crayon for my son to shade in Batman's cape. He repeatedly complained to me, "A pencil just would not do." I was greatly embarrassed, at last lay on the kitchen floor, and sobbed. Then he was filled with wonder.
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母親業が、母親が子供を虐待する原因になると言われている汚れたおむつ交換や眠れない夜ばかりであると言う悪いニュースしか伝えないマスコミを信じてはいけません。私が結婚した頃、４年間に３人の赤ちゃんを私が産むことは、世の中では至極当然のことの様に思えました。子供を持つことは、私がずっと望んでいたことでした。私は仕事が充実していましたし、おおむね幸福でしたが、子供を持ったことは、とりわけその最高点でした。幸いにも、私の伴侶もこうした考え方を共有してくれました。 しかし、人によっては、子育ては辛いことです。確かに、子育てには責任が伴います。子供を産んでおいて、酔っ払っていたり、一晩中家に帰らなかったり、衝動に任せて遊び歩いている訳にはいかないからです。実際、あなたがしなければならないことが全て整然としていなければならない時に、勝手気ままな考え方をすることは、本当に全くできないのです。 私もたまにはまったく無責任で、自分のことを除いて、他の人に必要なことを気にかけないでいたいと思うことも本当です。私が妊娠７カ月で、手のかかる３才の息子と這い這いしている１歳の娘に悪戦苦闘していた時のことを覚えています。腰は痛いし、さらに悪いことには、息子がバットマンのマントに影をつけるための適当な色のクレヨンを私は見つけられませんでした。息子は、「鉛筆じゃ駄目なんだよ」と、繰り返し私に文句を言いました。私は、本当に困ってしまって、ついには、キッチンの床に突っ伏して泣いてしまいました。すると息子はとても驚いたようでした。
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和訳をお願いします。 Athenians, I am not going to argue for my own sake... but for yours. ...For if you kill me, you will not easily find a successor to me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, an a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God: and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me, and therefore I would advise you to spare me. 長文で申し訳ございません。今まで出会ったことのないような英文のためご教示お願いします。
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