Post #174937 by DawnTiki on Tue, Jul 26, 2005 5:03 PM

Monkeyman wrote about a talkshow hosts opinion that having children is a great thing to do if you have an unsatisfying career...

I know you all know what they say about opinions and assholes...

On 2005-07-26 16:01, alohabros wrote:
oft times, folks have children for all the wrong reasons,

There have always been idiot assed people bumbling through life with no thought given to where they are or where they're going.
Lucky for me, right or wrong they were given the right to reproduce.
I remember being pregnant and being at a mall with my husband. He was watching some idiot assed people, like I mentioned earlier, with their idiot assed kids (who will more likely grow up and have their own little batch of idiot assed kids and so on and so on) he was sooo terrified that would be us one day.
Welp you know what, it is. We were idiots asses before we had a child. And having kids certainly wasn't going to change that.
Who do you know that is perfectly perfect 100 percent of the time?
I mean, well behaved, smart, good, well mannered, those words all have their own different meanings to everyone anyway.
How can people be consistent 100 percent of the time?
I know I can't.
And I won't buy into the hype and lies that you have to be perfectly adjusted to raise a great kid. How boring is that?
I know I can't even be an idiot ass 100 percent of the time. Well, ok maybe I can...
I just know our boy is perfect...for us.
A smart, a fairly independent, strong, funny, wise ass that wont let anyone get away with anything, who pushes the envelope daily (thank goodness).
And no he isn't related to Bong :wink:
Granted I didn't LOVE my job, I certainly didn't see it as a sacrifice to walk away from it to be able to spend my days raising my son.
I find it interesting when I tell people I'm a stay at home mom I don't get a very positive response. It seems like people just don't know how to respond to it. It's curious...
I totally understand why there are people who have made the decision that kids aren't for them, for important reasons as their personal independence, freedom and or careers, all of those reasons in themselves are valid reasons not to have children, pets or a spouse (not in that order) :P if they so choose.
But for me personally, it's just beyond my relm of reasoning to be able to think of any job being more personally satisfying than my family.

[ Edited by: DawnTiki 2005-07-26 17:22 ]