I didn't need to see that before I ate...LOL

I can relate
 

Yeah that! Of course most of the relatives that ask me this question were the ones who got knocked up as teens and have kids by different baby daddies :rolleyes:
Of course they asked me about kids RIGHT after I had a miscarriage :mad:


Folks need to butt out and STFU

WoW!!! This is exactly how my husband and I feel! I shock the hell out of anyone who asks when I'm going to have kids by saying "Never!" It is truly amazing how many people feel the need to council me "Who will take care of you when your old?", "It's different when it's your own kids!", "It's the best part of life.", "You'll regret it later.", "You'll change your mind...you'll see!" Where do people get off assuming that any of these statements are true or that it's there place to say them?

[QUOTE=AOII Angel;1652321]WoW!!! It is truly amazing how many people feel the need to council me "Who will take care of you when your old?"QUOTE]

I like to remind them that having kids doesn't guarantee you someone to take care of you when your old-it just means you had some kids. Believe me, I saw lots of elderly patients at work whose kids didn't give a shit if they were in the ICU.

Ha Ha!! I am not bold enough to say this to any of my unmarried friends with children, but I have asked some of my married friends this...Who needs 2 kids in the first year and a half of marriage? Were you on birth control? What possessed you to stop taking it? Normally that stops the question/answer session from them!!! :D

DEFINITELY!!! I am very concerned with having enough money to raise the possible children the way I was raised (never worrying about money). The other big issue is the cost of college.

Have you seen that tv ad "Having a baby changes everything" from Johnson & Johnson? BLEAH!!! An ad I actually hate more than the ambulance chasing attorneys or the toenail fungus!

I know that people are probably using hyperbole and going overboard, but when people act like everything that happened in their life before they had kids was just an insignificant piece of poo (including, ummm, their marriage) it makes me scared as to how bratty the kids must be, and worried that they're going to fall apart when the kids grow up and get lives of their own.

Yes my mom quit work when she had me (very late in life for the times) to be a stay at home mom - yes I was an only child - and I'm sure there were people who thought she was overly invested in me, but it's NOTHING like some of these parents I see today.

I personally don't want "everything to change!" I happen to like how my life is right now. My mom always says, "But all the trouble is worth it." And, I counter with, "What parent is really going to say it isn't? You decided to have the kid...you have to make the best of it!"