Child free (by choice. )All of our friends now have children.

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justme111 wrote: »

Ah , but you chosen to have no children and now moan on how society treats you

So I deserve to essentially be bullied for not submitting to the norm?

HBS x

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Person_one wrote: »

I still am a big kid really, at a housewarming party recently I spent more time on Beatles Rock Band in the playroom with a bunch of 7-10 year olds than with the adults.

Brilliant!

To be honest, I don't mind older kids so much (at least in small doses) - they're often quite fun and come out with ridiculously daft quips. It's babies and toddlers I really don't see the fascination with they're just noise and mess machines.

HBS x

Proxima_Centauri

barbiedoll wrote: »

What on earth are you doing at a soft play centre? They are hell on earth even for parents! (Although we used to go late afternoons, an hour before closing time, the staff would turn a blind eye when we had a quick play in the ball pit lol!)

I recall going into one of the 'tunnels' to retrieve a small child who'd got lost in there or wouldn't come out :rotfl:

justme111

Methink you dramatising - looking at you as if you grown the third head is not bullying , is compassion!:D
Re younger children - I know , saying that one believes that newborn babies are ugly would risk one being lynched

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Proxima_Centauri wrote: »

I recall going into one of the 'tunnels' to retrieve a small child who'd got lost in there or wouldn't come out :rotfl:

Oh no! Did you rescue said child?

HBS x

Proxima_Centauri

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Oh no! Did you rescue said child?

HBS x

Yes, I got him. In theory the bigger kids were meant to be playing separately from the little ones but they somehow all ended up playing in one area and he got pelted with bean bags.

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justme111 wrote: »

Methink you dramatising - looking at you as if you grown the third head is not bullying , is compassion!:D
Re younger children - I know , saying that one believes that newborn babies are ugly would risk one being lynched

How on earth is it compassion? (Although I hope they'd tell me if I DID grow an extra head )

Also a grr moment - every time one of their kids makes a break for it, I pick up said tiny escape artist and return to nearest parent. Apparently this is me "softening and starting to want a baby". NO - it's me having good reflexes and stopping your kid getting out of a door/under feet/etc. so you don't have to run... *sigh*

Newborn babies look like Yoda or Winston Churchill...not necessarily ugly, but a bit odd haha!

HBS x

Mojisola

Lily-Rose wrote: »

Thing is, if any particular friend of yours is any kind of a mother, she will put her children before ANYthing; work, friends, her extended family, her husband, and even herself.

My daughter is ALWAYS the top priority over and above everything in my life, and she always will be.

Wow! I don't think this is healthy.

Our kids aren't little princes/princesses. They are part of our household and also of the wider family and we all have needs.

They knew that sometimes other people's needs were more important than theirs; that sometimes work commitments had to take priority over other plans; that now they are grown, that their parents needs/wants as a couple are important and may take priority over theirs.

KateBob

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Newborn babies look like Yoda or Winston Churchill...not necessarily ugly, but a bit odd haha!

HBS x

Not always, my eldest looked like ET as a baby (she could even do the elongating neck).

To be fair I may ask you about family/relationship status if we're first meeting because it's one way to get more information, but I've never understood some people thinking they can tell others they'll want children eventually (they're hardly easy even if you really want them).

Whilst my childrens metal/physical welfare comes first, I don't put them ahead of all things at all times either.
Sometimes my hubby/other family/friends needs come first, sometimes (heaven forbid) I even put myself first!

greatgimpo

Child free (by choice. )All of our friends now have children.

Us too - join the club - rather than be IN the club.