Posted on 03/06/2024 11:05:55 AM PST by nickcarraway
All that she wants is another … handbag.
A woman named Stephanie Noble, who goes by @iamstephanienoble on TikTok, said she’s child-free by choice and would rather take naps than deal with a screaming child.
“Being a mother is the most important job in the world, but it doesn’t mean every woman needs to sign up for that,” the content creator and business owner told The Post. In a video posted four days ago, now with almost 3 million views, she said she constantly has to defend her kid-free stance.
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Two memories?
A character in one of H. Allen Smith’s novels, an old Texas cowboy, said that a man has to have three sons. One to get killed in a car wreck, one to turn out sorry, and one to take care of you when you get old.
It’s good people like this don’t have kids.
Good for the potential kids.
It is her choice. Many people for many reasons do not have children. There are many men (especially today) have decided to remain unmarried and with no children. They also like to be free to do things they want to do. Only time will tell if they made a wise decision.
“It’s almost as if you relive their life in thought during those months of caring, and appreciate them even more.”
It is amazing the amount of information that is passed down during those nightly chats when caring for a elderly relative. As I said, I wouldn’t change a thing and wouldn’t exchange that experience for anything.
The day before she passed away, I rolled Mom in her wheelchair out onto the deck so she could look at her flowers. She went over one more time which plant came from where (the fig bush from my dad’s sister, etc), so I had that sense of the roots and heritage of my family to take forward. (I also made sure I got a rooting from the fig bush before we sold the place).
It is a shame the author of this piece will never experience those family connections that are a bridge from the past and a path to the future.
True that. But back then you couldn't become a societal hero through contrived victimhood.
My grandmother was almost 95 when she died; a lot of history and experience to share :-)
And when she dies the cats will “take care” of themselves..if you know what I mean.
I would have loved kids. Wasn’t in the cards for me, sadly. My health meant pregnancy would be lethal, so I went the route of sterilization. I didn’t want to have to face the potential of having to have an abortion - I had to take meds which would have killed an unborn child, anyway. I didn’t want that.
Hearing this annoys me to no end.
God told us to be fruitful and multiply. He is filling all of heaven’s designated spaces.
We adopted two special-needs children. They are a blessing.
“B” probably stand for bunny boiler
She doesn't say it was her choice...
A useless consumer.
Having a daughter go through puberty at the same time as her mother is going through menopause.
I only had 4 and they did the same to me.
Why is she making a big deal out of it? Some people want kids, some don’t. You don’t have to defend yourself if you don’t want kids.
In ancient Rome her name would have been Slutica.
People used to come up to me with comments often when I was out with a lot of small children.
“Are these all yours?”
“No, I have more.”
But I never go up to someone who doesn’t have children and ask, “Don’t you and your husband like each other?”
I have nothing but pity for the person who feels she has to get on whatever site and beg for attention.
I heard that.
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