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Originally Posted by Over-Head
Well the wife is 5 day’s over due, so ask me next week. LOL
My mother used to carry a wooden spoon in her purse and WAS NOT SCARED to use it ANYWHERE ANY TIME!(My mother was also a bitch, and should NEVER have had kids, perhaps it’s the religious hang up’s she faced)
I remember a good many times she would be wailing away at me saying crap like
"Jehovah doesn’t tolerate bad children so I’m doing this for your own good"
I SHIT YOU NOT!!!!!!!
My old man would tear off his belt in a hartbeat (at my mothers urging) and swing it 3 times, as long as you cried on the second he stoipped at 3.
Again, utterng some retoric bullcrap of "What do you think the "elders" would say of they knew you did this/that?"
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I think all of us in our 20s-40s know people that dont', and never will have kids, and they're fine iwth it. For our parent's generation, that was very odd, especially if they had more than two nickels to rub together.
Every once in a while my wife and I will be talking about some couple we know, or just met, and she'll say "it's a shame they don't have kids, they could afford it" blah, blah, blah.
My response is always the same -- if a person doesn't think they should have kids, they're probably right.
Being a parent is far and away the toughest job I've ever had. The most rewarding too, but the toughest. If you're actively opposed to being a parent, but get forced into it by circumstances or by peer pressure, that won't help when you're dealing with the crying baby at 3:00 a.m.