Posted on 02/08/2006 4:02:23 AM PST by LouAvul
My friends who do this are chronically exhausted and depressed. They are two income families, both professionals, with two or more small children demanding their time and energy.
It's called 'life'...Now people whine about it...
fellow parent-worriers ping!
what i worry about are the parents who do NOT worry about their kids. something wrong with them!
The solution is clear: humans should stop reproducing. Abortion shouldn't be safe and legal--it should be quick and mandatory.
Other people's kids are far more depressing than my own. I don't know why, but it's true.
LOL!
That's harsh. I was simply going to advocate the Soylent Green method.
My kids are 21 and twins 19 and they really drive me crazy. If I had it to do over, I'm really not sure I would have kids. I sometimes find myself envying people without kids.
There, I feel much better after confession.
If only we had a village to raise our children for us.....
You beat me to the ping!!!!
It is worse with grandkids, you lose most of your input authority.
Nope, not good enough. Only the "No Child Policy" can eliminate depression.
Exactly!
My kids are grown, they really 'turned out' well. I have 7 grandkids. My kids are among my 'best' friends. Yes..I still worry about them. But they are the most satisfying segment of my life. I would love to go back and experience raising them again! I loved it!
Bold new study finds both ups, and downs, to having children.
If people didn't micro-manage their childrens lives they'd be a lot less stressed out. And stop signing them up for every sort of activity under the Sun. My SIL burned herself out from constantly being stressed out over her sons schedule.
How many people have their children on a schedule like this every day?
Traveling soccer team practice 7 - 8AM
School 8:30 - 2:30
Karate 2:45 - 3:30
More soccer 4 - 5
Piano 5:30 - 5:00
Spanish tutor 5:25 - 6:00
Choir practice 6:30 - 7:15
Lemme get M. Night Shaymalan on the phone.
xms - I might worry about my kids in a day-to-day TACTICAL sense, but I don't worry at all in a STRATEGIC sense. Whether they become PHDs or work in the drive-thru at McD's, they'll be just fine. Whether they marry "well" or marry psychos, they'll be just fine. No matter what life throws at them, or what stupid choices they make, God will be there to protect them, unless they reject Him outright.
My own life attests to this. Were I to tell you some of the stupid things I did in my youth, and tell you that your kids were going to do the same, you would probably get quite depressed. Yet here I am, financially well off, healthy, happily married for 20 years with two wonderful children. I shouldn't be here. This is what God does. And even if He didn't, my only real concern is Eternal; the rest is chump change. No, I do not worry.
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