The weird mom (sigh....)

Sometimes I get tired of being the weird mom. You know, the one who does things that make no sense to anyone else, even though they make perfect sense to me.

Like...

• thinking that my kids should watch as little television as possible (even if I can't always live up to that!)
• refusing to buy violent video games for my 7-year-old (yes, anything involving shooting of any kind is violent!)
• thinking that there is no reason 3- and 4-year olds should be pushed toward reading
• not wanting to collect every Disney movie ever made
• thinking that it's perfectly OK that my older children still need parental help to fall asleep
• refusing to buy toy guns or other types of weapons for my 7-year-old
• not sending my 3-year-old to preschool
• refusing to let my 18-month-old cry-it-out in the church nursery
• wanting to homeschool
• refusing to buy any product with Disney, PBS, NickJr or other media characters on it (OK, I've given in to toothbrushes and toothpaste....)
• thinking that PG-13 movies really are not appropriate for 7-year-olds
• actually enjoying painting and doing arts/crafts with your child

Now, the point of this post is really not so much to criticize other people's choices. I could actually write down a lot more things here, and I'm sure I would match up with some people on some of those things, but not match up on others. That's the way life is.

No, really, the point of this was more to lament the fact that sometimes it's so dang hard to live your life outside of the mainstream, to try to reject the popular culture and "traditional" way of doing things. It's hard to fight an uphill battle with every choice you want to make. (Some more than others.)

Are you weird too?