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Parents - what do you miss most about being childless?

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  • dandy-candy
    dandy-candy Posts: 2,214 Forumite
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    Not a thing!
    I absolutely love being a mum and everything I did before seems pretty banal by comparison.
    The expense of holidays abroad is a bugbear but that's because we have to stick to school holidays and the companies hike up the prices.
    I always was a morning person so early starts were never a problem, and now they are all teens and over they would sleep all day if I let them!
  • msnigella
    msnigella Posts: 95 Forumite
    Before baby I never ever had poo on my clothes. Or my hands. Certainly not in my hair. I miss that. I was never wee'd on either.
  • themull1
    themull1 Posts: 4,299 Forumite
    Although I love my kids, if i had my time again, and know then what I know now, I would never have had kids. I would have been child free, and done whatever I liked!!
  • Spendless
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    That's the theory. But Isaac hadn't ever read those books about how much sleep a baby / toddler / small child needs, and didn't conform with them.
    :D My son never did either. He's read the one that says teenagers like lying in bed as long as they can though. ;)
  • Spendless
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    My son showed me this recently. I miss this not being in my life.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_tlxGRpZCo&noredirect=1
  • mcja
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    Spendless wrote: »
    My son showed me this recently. I miss this not being in my life.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_tlxGRpZCo&noredirect=1

    You miss nagging? OMG!!my sons just come back to cuddling up with me on the sofa. I spent the whole of a film (The Snowmen...its beautiful and sad and lovely) with him resting his legs on me.x
    “Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”
  • Spendless
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    mcja wrote: »
    You miss nagging? OMG!!my sons just come back to cuddling up with me on the sofa. I spent the whole of a film (The Snowmen...its beautiful and sad and lovely) with him resting his legs on me.x
    No. The question was 'parents, would do you most miss about being childless?' I answered that I missed this NOT being in my life
    Spendless wrote: »
    My son showed me this recently. I miss this not being in my life.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_tlxGRpZCo&noredirect=1
    ie since having children this IS in my life, especially since eldest became a teenager.:D
  • mcja
    mcja Posts: 4,077 Forumite
    Oops sorry, I shouldnt post pre morning cuppa!!
    “Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”
  • Former_MSE_Andrea
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    Hey all, I just wanted to bump this thread up.

    It was a great one that would be lovely to carry on especially for all our new forum members who may not have seen it :)
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  • daisiegg
    daisiegg Posts: 5,395 Forumite
    MSE_Andrea wrote: »
    Hey all, I just wanted to bump this thread up.

    It was a great one that would be lovely to carry on especially for all our new forum members who may not have seen it :)

    Funny you should bump up this thread I started in December...as I just had my baby a week ago so am almost qualified to answer my own question now!
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