Posted on 02/27/2008 7:06:01 AM PST by Uncledave
“If I saved my Mom instead of my children, she’d KILL me. :p”
lol! I was thinking the same thing!
I have forbidden all of them to leave the state. I am QUITE sure they will comply with my dictates......BWAHAHAHA!!
i have a pile of fur in my lap everynight, her name is chanel and she is an 11 lb cavalier king charles spaniel. i can do without purring : ) if i am on the couch instead of the recliner, her 20 lb brother, Lucius, will have his butt pressed up against me on one side too.
Because it costs a lot of money to have kids. Two incomes are often not enough. Tax laws are slanted to favor the rich and the poor, and to penalize normal people who decide to become parents.
There should be a tax exemption of at least $12,000 per year per child (born to or adopted by male+female married parents).
Current tax and immigration laws penalize the normal family.
And even on a broader scale -
there isn’t a problem in our society that can’t be traced to some shortsighted liberal idea.
Can anyone offer a counter example?
Very well said.
I’m tryiny to talk my wife into another child, but the potential of another Iraq deployment is giving us pause. She doesn’t want to be alone with three children under 5 for another year+ It’s a tough situation.
In the meantime, I spend every waking moment when I’m not at work with my children. Yes, my hobbies like golf and SCUBA diving and long sessions at the gym have gone by the wayside. That’s the price you pay. My wife and I compromise as much as possible so she can attend Yoga classes a few hours a week and I can hit the gym for quick workouts. The problem is too many people can’t or won’t make these sacrifices. They just don’t get it. Your childhood is over, step up and be an adult and join the Human Race.
30% of your time with your toddlers is miserable. That’s life, but that’s how you “break your teeth” as a parent and turn your children into solid citizens. People that can’t, won’t or don’t want to do this baffle me. What if their parents had felt the same way?
Sometimes I weep for the future of this country.
It dependes on reproductionand the care and nourishing of the future generation (future leaders and such)
It is so difficult for me seeing my kids grow up (too fast!). There seems to be an inate unfairness that our job is to raise them so that they can leave us and live on their own. My kids (teens now) are very loving and kind, but they are also fiercely independent since they were very young. It about killed me when they started school for the first time with nothing more than a “bye mom!”
I of course want them to be as independent as they are (I raised them that way), but as a mom sometimes it hurts my heart knowing that in only a few short years they won’t be here in the house all the time.
I adore having teenagers... We have the best conversations and my son is so tall now he can reach the top of the shelves for me. He jokes that I only had him so he could reach stuff for his short mother. Lol
Ain’t it the truth? It is so funny when someone has a child who they think is God’s gift to the earth and the kid is annoying as hell. I knew the limitations of my children - knew when naptime was overdue, or when we were somewhere kids shouldn’t be. Conversely, when adults are in an area more conducive to children, they should be the ones to show some good sense and let the kids have some freedom.
There are so many other ways I can be ridiculed.
I didn’t say they were shallow—someone else did (note: I had responded to someone else’s post). But I said IF it’s true, that they’d make terrible parents anyway. And there’s nothing at all wrong with that—better not to have kids than to have them and neglect them or worse, abuse them because they’re frankly not suited for the job.
and you are! don’t allow yourself to be defined merely by your childlessness, when there is so much more that we can rag on you for.
Thank goodness you live in a smaller State!
I am hard-pressed to find so much as one liberal idea that's helped our nation in particular or society overall. If anything, they've done nothing but erode the fabric of everything that has historically made our nation great.
I think the difference with the clown car is that it’s a teasing jab whereas the attacks on the childless are very pointed, mean and insulting. just in this thread they are called selfish, deformed and horrible people. Regardless of the jokes thrown at those with too many children, I’ve never seen anyone call them deranged or accuse them of being the downfall of society. Frankly, many of those I know who choose to remain childless do so for very unselfish reasons. And many of those I know who have chosen to have children have done so for very selfish reasons. To try to lump all into one category or another is rather shallow.
FReepers are a very judgemental lot, that’s for sure.
You sound like a great mom!
I’m sure I’d like your kids.
Agree totally!
LOL! I agree - as long as they can give them a good home!
Carolyn
i don’t know, i just have three kids, i can’t speak for how those who have very large families are made to feel by posters here. knowing how judgmental and insulting freepers can be, i would not just assume that they are laughing the jibes off. my philosophy is to just respect other people’s decisions about their own lives. Defining oneself based on childlessness makes as much sense as defining oneself by the computer operating system they use. and God knows we have seen threads on that subject as well, LOL!!!
“There should be a tax exemption of at least $12,000 per year per child (born to or adopted by male+female married parents).”
there are freepers here who already think the present child tax credit is too much, and that the childless are “subsidizing” those who have children because they send more money to D.C.
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