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I have been for the last year or so entirely focused on domesticity. I have a 9 month old son for whom I want to put my best foot forward. I want to create an environment for him that affords him opportunities and lessons that include kindness and compassion, tolerance and personal ambition. That being said, I am now trying to reclaim part of my humanity. I want to remember who I am, and enjoy my life as a person apart from my family.

This may not be hard, except that I enjoy vampires and lust. I believe in magick and I am finding that my interests are not very compatible with a hockey mom. I'm not sure how to teach my son to be true to himself when I feel that I'm not doing the same, and I am afriad I will harm him and send mixed messages.

I know that incorporating any life with children is difficult perhaps because I have a life in my mind's eye that does not involve my own true feelings. I do not want to lose myself in my white picket fence, but I am having a hard time visualizing how they live in harmony.

Any thoughts or experiences?

:) hi hun
well as the fruitcake mom of 3 littles ones ...you must remeber that kids know things..they just do... and if you are not being true to your self.. he will know it, no matter what your words say, your actions teach way much more.
I have found the key is discretion.. it really isnt his teachers business what you believe in...I do dress differently then lots of the other moms.. but..so do my kids.. and yes there have been times when my kids caught crap for who i am.. but we used it as a learning moment .. and you knwo.. kids catch crap no matter what..werent you made fun of as a kid... i see it all the time on the playground...you can take the most normal kid...the others will find or create something to make fun of..
be yourself..allow him to be himself... just remember a time and place for everything

That's a fantastic point you've made Scarlett

That's much like the situation my mum was in, she had to fit her freaky interests into being an ice-skating mum. We used to read eachothers minds sometimes, and my mum used to do tarot readings while I waitied in the next room. She managed to be a perfectly good mother, I couldn't ask for better, I had a normal upbringing with definate tastes of the supernatural and didvination, somehow this sparked a huge interest for me in freaky things.
Our house looked like any other house, except that it was alll arranged for Feng Shui, and contains crystal balls, insence, shleves of weird books and packs of tarot cards.
So don't worry, I'm sure whatever environment you have, your son will grow up to be wonderful :)