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RE: The Business of Parenting - Our New Adventure Begins!
Unfortunately, nobody will ever pay you to parent, so it's a loss preventing business venture at best.
I do like the 'service provider' outlook, I have it myself. As a parent, I am sick and tired of being the 'product' or the consumer of various gadgets and philosophies, all of which would like for me to believe that parenting is more of a duty than a right, all of which exaggerate the difficulty, all of which are deeply ignorant of the real challanges. As of such, I parent from the view that 'everybody has babies, it's probably not that hard', and refuse the narrative of the day. What's better, nursing pillows or the football hold? how about, I don't care.
I'll go into the business and revenue model more in an upcoming article. ;)
I definitely agree with your perspective regarding how easy it is to procreate though. Every other animal does it so there's really nothing to admire about the biological aspect. I grew up on a farm and am glad that I had a decent amount of room to wander and get into trouble. I definitely prefer that to the neurotic and paranoid type of parenting that has become common today where kids are kept indoors and not allowed to explore and experiment for themselves. There's being responsible and then there's being an oppressive control freak.
I'm like a parent from opposite land.
Other parents: DON'T PLAY IN THE MUD, you'll get your sneakers dirty!!!!
Me: Your sneakers are still clean. Don't you want to play??
Exactly! If they own their own sneakers than who the hell am I to tell them not to get them dirty?