I live in an apartment. The fuck are they going to do, knock on my door after they wait for someone to buzz them in? Besides, I'm never home. have fun with that!
There are clearly good (and bad) aspects to having children and not having children. But I don't know how one can say they have just as much freedom with children as they do without. During the grade schools years alone (K-8) . . . you can't, as a couple, decide to go to Canada or Fiji or Hawaii or whatever pumps your blood at the spur of the moment. Taking a week off during the school year is the best time to travel. Truthfully, traveliing during "school breaks" or holidays suck compared to traveling when all the kids are in school. It is cheaper, less crowded and easier when all the kids are in school. And let's face it, selfish people do not make good parents (which is why teens having kids is often a reciepe for disaster). If you are going to have kids, be ready to sacrafice your own personal needs to put the needs of the kids first. It what most good parents do. Now of course the trade off might all be worth (often is) as you develop relationships and memories that can't be bought. But there are trade offs for both having kids and not having kids.
Having a child is one of the most selfish things one can do. Its basically to reproduce a little version of oneself to show them off to the world and to live vicariously through them.
This is just silly man. The meaning of any organisms life is to reproduce. Its the only reason anything is alive in the first place
I'm all for not having kids though, definitely don't ever do that. Its just not for everyone, and you prolly won't ever regret not procreating, unless you are a woman
And in 150 years there will be a few turtles, and then nothing. Shitloads of Styrofoam fingers tho. Were #1!
Please, never have children! I'm not into having unwanted or unplanned children but man, you don't have the skillset to do it if this is how you feel. If you think a child is a little version of yourself, whaahahahahahahaha! SURPRISE!!! Jim Morrison's dad was an admiral in the navy....not quite a clone?
Ha, yeah, I suppose so. It's not what I do. But my point is my kids don't ever hold me back from doing anything. They never have. But even more than that..... I would rather spend time with them than do most other things. Sure, I occasionally need some time to myself, which I've never had an issue getting. But pretty much anything I like to do, I like to take my kids to, and it's more fun, IMO. It's like Norman Dale said a few posts after my post......
Winner winner turkey dinner. My wife is bomb. She makes good money. Is more responsible than me (except when it comes to business/money), so I still get to be a 21-year old in a lot of ways. Cooks dinner nearly everyday. Let's me have friends over every week for drinks and sports (and will make us snacks). She cleans. I'd probably feel way different about a lot of aspects in my life if it wasn't for my wife.
Not totally true. We just got back from Hawaii. Booked the trip 3 days before we left, and the kids stayed with grandparents. We've been to Victoria, BC, Hawaii, going to Spring Training in March and San Francisco last week of May/first of June.
Well safe to say, and you must realize having kids and associating with other parents, that your situation is not the norm. Most parents don't have someone they can drop kids off to and expect all their needs will be taken care of while parents take off on some vacation. Also, most parents are limited in their vacation time and will spend that time vacationing with "the fam". You seem to have a good amount of money to travel, large amounts of vacation time and grandparents willing to take care of kids while you go and play. Life is good for you . . .
We took the girls to Disney World in early December 2012. They missed a week of school, but it was before any breaks, and it was after all of the XMas stuff was up in the parks. Awesome trip, and the girls were old enough to ride all the rides, with almost no lines. We would get off of Tower of Terror, Aerosmith Coaster, Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain Coaster, or whatever, and be able to basically only wait one or two rides before getting back on board. During the late nights you get if you stay at a Disney Resort, we literally would rest in between rides, and watched the firework show at Magic Kingdom while riding Thunder Mountain as a family 3 or 4 times. Conversely, we went to Disneyland last Spring Break, and spent most of the time in lines, or waiting until it was our FastPass window.
You must have had one fucked up childhood, if that's what you really believe. I'm not saying that people should have kids, either. It's not for everyone, but most parents I know aren't living through their kids, and the ones that are stand out to the rest of the parents.
Yeah, I think it's fantastic that BG has grandparents close who will take care of the kids on a whim. My wife and I don't have family within 5 hours of Portland, and both my mom and her parents travel quite a bit. Our spontaneous trips tend to be quick trips to Bend or the coast, or this weekend, to Seattle to hang out with my brother and his family.
Yeah, but how often do you actually go anywhere you want, and do anything you want? That sounds like a very short sighted, 20 something mindset. If money/adventure is your excuse for not having kids, then do us all a favor, and don't have any kids, because it sounds like you'd be one of those dads who doesn't get it.
