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I came across a mommy website about making extra cash, and this boggled my mind:
"But staying home with the kids does not mean that you can't be a productive member of the team."
WHAT?
Why does it always go back to making money? Isn't being a stay at home parent productive itself? Aren't you being productive the moment you start taking care of your spawn and raising it to be a good individual? Aren't you a stay at home parent because you CAN and are ABLE to stay at home? Why do these parents equal being productive to making money? Why does that sentence sound like like "I'd rather be working and making money than staying home taking care of the brats"?
These are the same idiots that tell us how "fullfilling" having children is and how "selfish" and "lazy" we are for not having any. Yet they don't feel "productive". How disgusting.
"But staying home with the kids does not mean that you can't be a productive member of the team."
WHAT?
Why does it always go back to making money? Isn't being a stay at home parent productive itself? Aren't you being productive the moment you start taking care of your spawn and raising it to be a good individual? Aren't you a stay at home parent because you CAN and are ABLE to stay at home? Why do these parents equal being productive to making money? Why does that sentence sound like like "I'd rather be working and making money than staying home taking care of the brats"?
These are the same idiots that tell us how "fullfilling" having children is and how "selfish" and "lazy" we are for not having any. Yet they don't feel "productive". How disgusting.
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Re: And I thought being a parent was one of the most productive tasks?
Tue, October 20, 2009 - 1:03 PMI learned long ago that whatever mothers do, they're guilty. Mothers who work outside the home are guilty of raising latchkey kids. Mothers who stay home are parasites. Edith Bunker said it best--"A woman's place is in the wrong." To hell with it. People need to think for themselves and make a life that works for them, period. -
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Re: And I thought being a parent was one of the most productive tasks?
Wed, October 21, 2009 - 9:21 AMI think the people who choose to be child-free are the ones who really should be raising the next generation, and the ones who breed incessantly should just stuff a plug up their reproductive parts. -
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Re: And I thought being a parent was one of the most productive tasks?
Wed, October 21, 2009 - 1:26 PMThey'd get values for living more sustainably on the planet, that's for sure. Only little wrinkle in that is that so many of us who choose to be child-free make that choice because we can't STAND kids and wish to be nowhere around them, ever. -
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Re: And I thought being a parent was one of the most productive tasks?
Wed, October 21, 2009 - 4:51 PMBingo, Briar. Well, I won't say ever. I just don't want to raise any. Everyone who knows me says I would make a great father, and I agree. I just don't want to. -
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Re: And I thought being a parent was one of the most productive tasks?
Wed, October 21, 2009 - 7:21 PMI think there are different reasons different people choose to be child free, and I'm not actually lying when I get all noble and take credit for not adding children to the already staggering carbon burden on this planet--because I do recognize it as a critical situation and it is very important to me to have hope for the continuance of our civilization overall. Avoiding catastrophic climate collapse is of great importance to me, and population reduction is one of the keys. But the FIRST and most personal things driving my choice (such a second-nature one that I could hardly call it a "decision!") were that I despised the company of kids and value wiggle-room over permanent responsibility. Neither trait changed over the years. I have never regretted being a non-parent. -
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Re: And I thought being a parent was one of the most productive tasks?
Thu, October 22, 2009 - 3:50 PMI got clipped over 30 years ago, and have not regretted that decision for a second. Of all the major decisions I have made in my life, I think that was one of the best. I never really thought of the environmental impact until recently, although I have always thought there were too many people on the planet. I always said that I ever got the urge to be a daddy, I would rather adopt. There are too many kids already here that need parents for me to breeding more. So, in all seriousness, I do look at being childfree as the responsible thing to do. -
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Re: And I thought being a parent was one of the most productive tasks?
Fri, October 30, 2009 - 11:41 PMSpay and neuter is the way to go. -
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Re: And I thought being a parent was one of the most productive tasks?
Sat, October 31, 2009 - 5:35 PMYeah, that's the bugger of it, really. I don't mind children as long as they are well mannered, but I just don't feel comfortable around them. My sister teaches middle school kids and I don't know how she does it...if it were up to me, I'd lock all those budding pubescents away on a deserted island and keep them away from society until they've matured.
I shiver at the thought of drool and dripping snot...it makes me ill when it comes out of dogs, and human spit and snot is a trillion times worse, so I just can't be around babies and toddlers unless they have been thoroughly wiped, then I might wave at them from a distance, but please don't ask me to hold one of them.
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