Childfree by Choice #4

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ElectricDreams

Zenchick101 said:
hahaha I get it, I used to babysit and most of the time I couldn't stand the kids. I only like calm really well behaved ones - though I don't want the responsibility of raising them.
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I work with kids but I have to say I don't enjoy it for the most part. I like the quiet, well behaved ones but the majority of them are really hard work, and it's just not fun!
 
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fnddlsoxnz

Does it count that I have a 2 year old little girl but other than my own child ( she’s soo chill and a happy child) I cannot stand any other children 😖
 
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penny1992

fnddlsoxnz said:
Does it count that I have a 2 year old little girl but other than my own child ( she’s soo chill and a happy child) I cannot stand any other children 😖
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If I was a parent that is how I'd be 😀. I have a friend with a child similar description to yours and she can't stand other kids 😂
 
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Snowjoke

ATV2021 said:
Saw on FB...the comments are in uproar
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People that share those kind of memes are clearly lacking a lot of perspective and general awareness. Not everyone wants to have kids. Sometimes I think they share those kind of memes to make themselves feel better about their own choices. Otherwise, why feel the need to justify it to the world
 
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Blond3g1rl

Blond3g1rl

I completely get that love for a child is completely different to other forms of love but it doesn’t mean that you don’t know love of you don’t have a child.
 
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Limery

Also that quotes and quotes of that nature are always specifically referring to babies. Does this magical love that no one else can possibly ever feel end at 18 months? Describing that relationship in those terms is so reductive.
 
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LaBlonde

LaBlonde

Limery said:
Also that quotes and quotes of that nature are always specifically referring to babies. Does this magical love that no one else can possibly ever feel end at 18 months? Describing that relationship in those terms is so reductive.
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exactly! what happens when you’re not “powdering a little booty” anymore? romanticising and focusing on the baby stage constantly just doesn’t help - it’s like so many people forgot that the baby becomes a toddler and becomes a child into a teenager.
 
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Baby Giraffe

LaBlonde said:
all of it is making my eyelid twitch but “powdered a little booty” is making me want to throw my phone out of the nearest window.
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I see booty as a term you’d use about a bottom you find attractive, it is most certainly NOT a term I’d use for a child
 
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mcfeez

Limery said:
Also that quotes and quotes of that nature are always specifically referring to babies. Does this magical love that no one else can possibly ever feel end at 18 months? Describing that relationship in those terms is so reductive.
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Everyone who has ever tried to sell the joys of children to me always goes in with the babies. Not children or teens.

A lot of parents seem to like the baby part as it's easy in terms of there's lots of must dos and do nots and formulaic in many aspects. Where lots of parents fail spectacularly is when the kid gets older and actually needs disciplined and emotional development.
 
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