Probably when I'm around 30 or so and have a good career that would be optimal. I'd only have one, because that would make him/her more likely to be a smart, interesting, thoughtful person.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clangus @ Jul 24 2007, 07:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>got 2 and Highly recomend it - when your old enough!</div>I hope you don't curse at them as much as your forum persona would make one think.
Yeah I want kids. Not right now, but I think they're fun even with the drawbacks. When I have my first kid, basketball training is going to start immediately.
Congrats to u CelticFan, make sure you tell us about him/her.I would like to have kids but I gotta make sure its a good situation
Yeah. I want to have kids.. 2 or 3 would be perfect. I'll try to get at least one of them into basketball, and then if they like it, then we'll go to Wizards games together.. and by that time, the Wizards probably have won 10 or 11 championships, Andray Blatche being our leader, of course.
^Ok there....I want 2 kids. A boy and a girl. The boy is gonna be a basketball player and the girl will be singer/dancer/actress or swimmer.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Jul 25 2007, 11:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I hope you don't curse at them as much as your forum persona would make one think.</div>What!! Thats a strange thing to say.I never swear at my kids. They are my life. My philosophy is that what was good enough for me is definitely NOT good enough for my own kids they deserve better than I ever got- not saying I had it bad , but they should have better no matter what!I have one of each, as long as we as parents make an effort every day to better our children and work hard for them!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Jul 24 2007, 10:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Probably when I'm around 30 or so and have a good career that would be optimal. I'd only have one, because that would make him/her more likely to be a smart, interesting, thoughtful person.</div>Now that sounds quite ridiculous. And if "research" proves it, then its more ridiculous that you follow that. I've always observed that children who don't have any siblings to be more introverted and anti-social, but that is not always the case; which is my point about your statement. You got a lot to learn about life buddy, instead of hiding behind numbers and research, damn. People trying to make perfect, smart babies, my God :no1:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wolverine30 @ Jul 25 2007, 01:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>^Ok there....</div>I don't think you've heard of the word 'sarcasm' before, have you? :no1:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (noballer07 @ Jul 24 2007, 11:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Now that sounds quite ridiculous. And if "research" proves it, then its more ridiculous that you follow that. I've always observed that children who don't have any siblings to be more introverted and anti-social, but that is not always the case; which is my point about your statement. You got a lot to learn about life buddy, instead of hiding behind numbers and research, damn. People trying to make perfect, smart babies, my God :no1:</div>The reason I said I'd want an only child is because I believe one could raise an only child to have much better critical thinking, etc, because your time wouldn't be divided between multiple kids. While research does show that only children are more intelligent (though I personally think IQ tests and SATs are bullsh*t), that wasn't my rationale in the slightest, it was that when there are two kids there's rivalry, fighting, etc, and it's harder to handle and at least one kid is more likely to get into drugs or what not. It's easier to raise one kid than two, and children are heavily influenced by how they're raised.
I want three, one boy and then twin girls or something like that. IDK why but just do. And I want to start my family young, like at 22 or so. Don't want to be 40 when my son is in his teen years and interested in sports, I'd like to be able to get off my ass and practice/play/teach him.
You can raise one child to take care of the 2nd. Most older siblings do...so you could wait like 6 years, have time to teach that child and then have another.I'd like to have mine only a a couple years apart. I know I was used to getting attention for a long time and then when my brother came I hated the little fella. I wouldn't want to do that to my first born. I'd like them to grow together.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DTP @ Jul 24 2007, 11:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I want three, one boy and then twin girls or something like that. IDK why but just do. And I want to start my family young, like at 22 or so. Don't want to be 40 when my son is in his teen years and interested in sports, I'd like to be able to get off my ass and practice/play/teach him.</div>That's a good point. My old man is, well...an old man. He'll be 50 next year and his shoulder always hurt when I wanted to play catch. Although I guess that could've been from the many years of karate.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Jul 25 2007, 01:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The reason I said I'd want an only child is because I believe one could raise an only child to have much better critical thinking, etc, because your time wouldn't be divided between multiple kids. While research does show that only children are more intelligent (though I personally think IQ tests and SATs are bullsh*t), that wasn't my rationale in the slightest, it was that when there are two kids there's rivalry, fighting, etc, and it's harder to handle and at least one kid is more likely to get into drugs or what not. It's easier to raise one kid than two, and children are heavily influenced by how they're raised.</div>Basically what you're saying is that "I want one kid so he'll be smart" which is pretty much the same thing as trusting in the research and thinking that having 2 kids will make them dumb. The truth is, it really doesn't matter how many kids you have; that probably has very little to do with how smart they'll end up being. You can have 2-3 children and have them all be geniuses, or have 1 and have him end up being the class dunce. All of this planning crap is nonsense; life is natural and isn't something that should be put under a microscope and planned all of the time. Now, if you truly meant that having 1 kid is easier, then I understand, I agree with that, but what you said at the beginning of the paragraph is different than the last sentence.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (noballer07 @ Jul 25 2007, 12:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Basically what you're saying is that "I want one kid so he'll be smart" which is pretty much the same thing as trusting in the research and thinking that having 2 kids will make them dumb. The truth is, it really doesn't matter how many kids you have; that probably has very little to do with how smart they'll end up being. You can have 2-3 children and have them all be geniuses, or have 1 and have him end up being the class dunce. All of this planning crap is nonsense; life is natural and isn't something that should be put under a microscope and planned all of the time. Now, if you truly meant that having 1 kid is easier, then I understand, I agree with that, but what you said at the beginning of the paragraph is different than the last sentence.</div>Well I truly am such an egotist that I believe that me having more time to parent an individual kid would make him/her smarter and hopefully keep him/her from becoming a slave to the system.
I'd like kids someday, but only with a real women, not these girls I mess around with nowadays. If I got them pregnent id be F*cked, and probably have to get room-mates just to survive, so for now im trying to keep me kid-free.
I've always thought in my mind that around 25 or so is when you should have a kid, but I guess we won't be fully mature by that age so all bets are off. But still, I'd rather be young and have a kid rather than wait too long and be old. I'm only 16 yet my dad just turned 54 so he definitely waited too long.
