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View Poll Results: Do you like kids (under 5 years old)? | |||
I love 'em | 38 | 35.85% | |
They ok | 33 | 31.13% | |
I love them most when they're sleeping | 18 | 16.98% | |
They're too noisy, demanding and/or self-centered | 36 | 33.96% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 106. You may not vote on this poll |
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06-19-2009, 04:37 PM | #31 | |
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06-19-2009, 04:50 PM | #32 |
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yah yah, I was going to go with the bbq sauce, but thought since it's almost summer, salt and vinegar would be best
Truthfully, while I never wanted (or want) any of my own, I truly enjoy the time spent with my nephew. He's funny and engaging (like most of the men in my family :P) but I don't have to clean up after or for him We just get to hang out, tell jokes* and have fun! *our current favorite: Knock Knock Who's there? Gorilla Gorilla who? Gorilla me a cheese sammich and I'll be right over! |
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06-19-2009, 04:56 PM | #33 | |
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As a daughter, it's downright painful to watch. |
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06-19-2009, 05:04 PM | #34 |
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I love 'em, especially my one & only. I treat her friends like an extension of our family! I wish I could have more! Maybe if this old barn were done, we'd have plenty of room to adopt! Hopefully I won't be too old by then!
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06-19-2009, 05:11 PM | #35 | |
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When we were raising you, there was so much to worry about. Keeping jobs, paying the bills, keeping you in clothes and away from bad influences, making sure you did well in school. Single motherhood. Keeping food on the table. Trying to make sure that paycheck lasted the week. Worrying about who was taking care of you as an infant. Would the car break down yet again. Coming home exhausted from a day/week at work, and being expected to cook, clean, do the wash/ironing, bathe you and make sure you were ready for the next day. Crying ourselves to sleep because we had no idea how we would get thru this. Loving you beyond belief and being too tired/worried/distracted to show it. I am amazed we had any time at all for fun. Realize this is just my perspective. The pot at the end of the rainbow is this.......someday you will have grandchildren. You will be able to give to them what you could not to your own. |
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06-19-2009, 05:11 PM | #36 |
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I didn't like kids even when I was a kid. They were too noisy for me then, and they are too noisy for my now. I still prefer cats, dogs (now, not then so much), and good books.
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06-19-2009, 05:14 PM | #37 | |||
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But, my mother moved to Hungary, and the hardest part (or so she says) is not having those two kids close every day. She makes up at the summer holidays when my two nephews will stay the summer in Hungary (she has a huge garden with a swimming pool in a country that has a much warmer climate than we have...) |
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06-19-2009, 05:21 PM | #38 |
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We were never able to make kids, but just let me get my hands on one and I don't want to let go. I could hold a baby and watch it sleep and wiggle all day long. Lately, many of my friends are becoming grandmothers and I'm so jealous of them! But in a good way.
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06-19-2009, 06:15 PM | #39 | |
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And, um, I have a train set that I, um, play with It's so nice to know I'm not the only one who felt like that as a child and now. Although now I don't mind the quieter, more curious children. |
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06-19-2009, 08:51 PM | #40 | ||
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i don't have any children and i'm not at all sure i want any. i am positive that i don't want children in any absolute sense, just for the sake of having children. depending on future circumstances, i might want to have a family, but thanks to my neighbours and the school on avenue Claude Vellefaux, that possibility seems less and less attractive every day.
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i like some of my friends' / relatives children, individually, because they're intelligent and interesting and funny, and not by default just because they're children. i prefer them when they can form complete sentences and actually communicate their thoughts, and ideally do not shriek at all. i hate all my neighbors' children because they are noisy little hellions who either cry all day long (and frequently at night too) or run wild and spend their time at home in the courtyard shrieking at the top of their lungs (or some combination of those activities), while i am trying to work / sleep / read / have any semblance of normal life (i hate my neighbours more, because they do nothing when their children cry, and allow their obnoxious little hellions to run wild and spend all day shrieking in the courtyard). i know i sound like a cranky old lady when i say this but when i was a child, playing did not involve screaming just to see who can make the most noise (there is no other apparent motivation) and i see no reason why it ever should. in fact i hate *all* loud, undisicplined children who are being allowed to run wild / have screaming tantrums in the métro / grocery store / street / etc. i also have a strong (STRONG) aversion to Children whenever they manifest as an undifferentiated mass of more than, say, 2, because there is a schoolyard behind my building and... well, here is an mp3 of what i actually hear all day, every day (attached, in zip because mp3 is not a legal attachement format, and when you've listened to it you'll understand why). don't say i didn't warn you. imagine that in an endless loop, about a thousand decibels louder. |
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06-19-2009, 09:04 PM | #41 |
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SHUMS!!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!
I didn't feel any terrific need to have children but I can say without a doubt that I am a far better person for having them. Becoming responsible for others will tend to make you, uh, responsible. |
06-19-2009, 09:07 PM | #42 |
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some of us have had to be responsible for ourselves as well as others starting from an age when someone else should really have been doing the heavy lifting. i don't personally need a kid of my own to learn about that, in fact i think i may have over-learned that particular lesson. plus, i'm already responsible for 2 cats and an orchid, and that is plenty for now.
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06-19-2009, 09:11 PM | #43 |
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Me and "responsible" have never gotten along very well. Now that my kids are adults, I'm thinking of giving it up for dryer lint (whatever).
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06-19-2009, 09:18 PM | #44 |
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frankly i am tempted to copy your plan for myself, it sounds fantastic. i think there should be some sort of maximum level of responsibility any one person should be required to furnish in one lifetime, and once they reach that level, they should be allowed to slack off completely if they want. also, in order to even things out a bit, i would be quite happy to pass some of my responsibilities to whatever air-headed lunatic has the largest deficit. obviously, any troubles resulting from this person's irresponsibility would be wholly and exclusively their, ah, responsibility.
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