Other peoples Kids.
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Having your own makes you more tolerant of them. ALL children are horrible at some point, including you and your wife when you were knee-high to grasshoppers, but you only really understand why when you have lots of contact with them. What kind of things do you say to people?
Leave the ***** at home if you're coming around and don't moan about how you can't get a sitter, I'm not interested.
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Return to the room with said Brat wearing your best gold shell suitand smoking a fat cigar. That'll do the trick.
Why would we even bother? We want to live and travel and pursue our own interests and not be held back by having a child. We value our freedom way too much.
Sure, we didn't hate ourselves as children.
What do you mean? To be fair it's almost daily at work that people try to convince me that I'm being selfish by not having kids and that we're "selfish". It's sickening. There are too many kids in the world as it is.
I understand that perfectly and I agree that too many people have children for the sake of it. Having kids is very, very hard work and it involves bazillions of sacrifices and I honestly believe that many parents shouldn't have had them. I was simply saying that nippers aren't as bad as they seem, and when you have them yourself you understand that and become a lot more tolerant of other peoples' kids. If a kid is being awful it's probably bored, so just distract it with something interesting and it'll shut the **** up.
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Just tell the parents that according sarahs law.... And they will not be back
The problem is the parent not the child. When we go out with our daughter we are the first ones o tell her not to touch, and to behave etc, we ind it embarrassing if she misbehaves. Man up and tell the mother, maybe she needs to realise that what she is letting her child do is not acceptable behaviour.
I'm with Lysander on this one.
I'd even go further. I think instead of "child benefit" whatever it might be these days, it's the married working couples without kids that should be given tax discounts. Since will not have any offspring, which will in turn will not become extra burned on public education, health system, will not require housing etc etc. Yes, it's one future tax payer less, but it's irrelevant, since any family unit without kids in tax terms, will be able to see themselves though their retirement, all the way to their demise from the tax they already paid into the system with surplus.
I'd even go further. I think instead of "child benefit" whatever it might be these days, it's the married working couples without kids that should be given tax discounts. Since will not have any offspring, which will in turn will not become extra burned on public education, health system, will not require housing etc etc. Yes, it's one future tax payer less, but it's irrelevant, since any family unit without kids in tax terms, will be able to see themselves though their retirement, all the way to their demise from the tax they already paid into the system with surplus.
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Amen, brother, amen to that.
Also,
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Don't worry about it, they're just jealous of your freedom
Get them squeezed out early and you can have loads of freedom in your early forties. Freedom and money. Far too many people waiting until their late thirties to have kids and them finding out its hard work. Well it sure is if your geriatric.