[discostu]

Bill Cosby always said you're not really a parent until you have more than one kid. Parenting, as he said, involves ending fights that revolve around the phrase "stop touching me". Being an only child I'm not 100% sure I agree with him (certainly one of the things that keeps me away from parenthood is knowing what a hellion I was, my mom raised me with a lot of discipline but I had a lot of energy and we all know about idle hands), but I always like that routine anyway.

[glory]

Being an only child I'm not 100% sure I agree with him "

Hmm..this has me wondering how high the percentage is of only children who are childfree by choice and/or express a dislike of children. Every only I know seems to fit this description, with the exception of one who might as well have been since he was 12 yrs old before another child was in the picture.