Am I the only person in the whole wide world?

[Junkmanme]

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I DON'T agree with that. My Mother once slapped me. My Father told her to NEVER do that again...I could be injured. "Paddle his A$$," he said, "He's got plenty of padding back there and you won't hurt him seriously."
GOOD THINKING, I believe.

I used the razor-strap with my kids...Although all I ever needed to do was "pop-it". Amazingly..that got their undivided attention!

-Junkmanme-

 

[gryeyes]

I do not like children. I don't treat them badly, nor do I patronize 'em or talk down to 'em. But I do not like them.

I do not like babies. Human larvae. How nice that those of you who reproduce do like 'em. More power to ya.

I was pregnant once but didn't know it, and God knew enough about me to take care of that problem. My GYN explained AFTERWARDS, after I checked out all okay, that the problem had been a miscarriage. Oh. Okay.

I had my tubes tied when I was 22. Ironically, I had to have a hysterectomy when I was 25....

Over the years, there have been some fairly amusing incidents involving other people's progeny and me, because there is a population of folks who just don't GET it that someone could NOT like children, or adorable little baby-wabies. Especially THEIRS. Sorry. Yours too. Don't like 'em. Keep that mewling, drooling, arm-waving, swaddled infant away from me. Really. I am not kidding.

Actual conversational exchanges: "Look how she grabs my finger!" "Sure, she's a primate. Primates do that."

"Whoopsie, she's feeling a little urpy." "That baby pukes on me, it's going on the floor."

"Of course you'd be a good mother, Linda - look at all those newborn puppies and kittens you've bottle-raised, and how much you love your pets!" "Not the same at all; kittens use litter boxes by the time they're a month old, for one thing. And if a dog pisses me off I can put it outside in the dark and nobody calls the police."

"Have you ever wanted children?" "Yes, once for five minutes. I saw the look on [Somebody We Knew]'s face when the doctor handed him his newborn son. I can never put that expression on [One of My Various Husband]'s face. Oh well. He knew I couldn't have kids when he married me, so if that's important, he'll just have to get somebody else pregnant."

There was a period of time during which somebody would be sure to comment, "That's so sad, you'll never be totally fulfilled as a woman!" I learned to respond, with a straight face (instead of a sucker punch, which would have been misinterpreted as being "sensitive about it"), by saying, "Yes, but it's one reason why I am so dedicated to my job. I don't have a life."

 

[mississippifarmboy]

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Oh my.. you sound like my Kid sister.

That sounds SO like something she would say.

 

[BarkerChickens]

I like younger kids when they belong to someone else (except the ones that run through stores screaming, etc

). I don't like most teenagers. I didn't like teenagers when I was one (I preferred hanging out with my mom). Mouthy, know-it-alls, completely oblivious to the world around them. Granted, there are plenty that are not like that, but the ones that are like that are more than enough for me.

Somehow, DH and I are usually the favorite aunt/uncle and they come to us to discuss issues that they wouldn't usually won't mention to other people in the family. Some of those conversations make me grateful to be the aunt and not the parent!

I think a lot of it is that I just don't have that ticking clock. Mine must have broke before it even started. I have no issues with the idea of being pregnant, etc.; I just have no desire to have any of my own. As a kid, I thought I would have kids, but that is probably more societal than biological. I am very motherly...I just prefer to mother things that are feathered or furry....or, if it is hair/fur-less, I prefer that it belong to someone else. DH doesn't want any since he is scared he will have one like him (his mom says she regrets telling him, "Just wait till you have one that is just like you!"

). A year into our relationship (we were still dating at the time), he went into get a vasectomy (we discussed it first...and he was 35, so the likelihood of him regretting it is not likely).

and parenting nowadays...

I think we would be great parents (and we've been told the same), but that still doesn't change the fact that I just don't want any. It is nice to come home to a quiet house after a stressful day at work and relax with my husband.


To make up for our childless lifestyle, we have decided that we will be the ones to take care of our parents when they need assistance. We already help DHs parents quite a bit to the point that DH wouldn't move away from here since we are so close to them. They are still living on their own (MIL is healthy, but FIL has some health problems), but need help with things every so often.

 

[gritsar]

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[BarkerChickens]

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And because I am so dedicated to my job, I come home to a quiet house after a long day!

 

[redhen]

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I am dying..

I think thats the best post i've ever read.

 

[justbugged]

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That ain't happening! I'll move and leave no forwarding address.

My mom raised six kids. She always said that kids should be put in a cage at the age of 2 and not let out until they were 18.
I'd rather have 10 german shepherds the size of Kane, all in the puppy stage, in this tiny house than to have kids over.

My mother always said that she wanted to put us in a deep freezer for those years.

 

[scbatz33]

I like my kids well enough but now that they are almost grown, I have noticed I have less of a tollerance for other's children. i especially can not stand a crying, screaming tempertantrum throwing child......and even worse I have no tollerance for the parents of said child.

 

[scbatz33]

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Thank for the laugh! I was trying to work and be serious on the phone as I was reading this...I failed miserably!!! Brilliant.