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How many kids do you have?
- Thread starter Spiderman
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I've raised two children, both girls.
Depends on the child's personality and disposition. My younger daughter was more of a challenge than my elder one.
As far as what it's like, you are bringing a person into the world and doing your best to give them the best upbringing possible by providing for them and teaching them morals, ethics, and responsibility while being careful not to impose yourself onto them to a point where you're simply living vicariously through them instead of allowing them to be the individual beings they are.
Through hard work and careful planning.
Cooky
Veteran Member
I have 4 daughters. 22, 19, 7, and 5. I love raising kids, I just don't like it when the two little ones argue (mostly over toys).
...The 7 year old is a hoarder.
whirlingmerc
Well-Known Member
I have 2 grown kids and they are both a joy.
My daughter is married to someone in between the age of by son and daughter and so it was not like losing a daughter it was like gaining a middle child.
They do not stress me out, but you feel pain when they go though suffering like my daughter's cancer. Her marriage was a joy.
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BSM1
What? Me worry?
Two grown boys. It wasn't always easy but I wouldn't trade our worse ten minutes for anyone else's best year. I know you didn't ask but my grand kids (all 6 of them) were worth the wait. I had a friend that use to say that your grand kids were your reward for not strangling your own kids.
Spiderman
Veteran Member
All this time I thought you were the guy in your avatar. I'm guessing you are more like this:
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Don't be ridiculous. I would never drink store bought likker...
Spiderman
Veteran Member
BSM1
What? Me worry?
More like it...
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
I do not have kids 
The closest I got was when I was 20.
My girlfriend, Judy, and I got pregnant. It was quite a trauma, since we were both in college and didn't even have jobs. We were considering all the options, including abortion. Then she miscarried.
That experience hugely changed my attitude towards abortion. Before that, I had graduated from 12 years of Catholic schooling convinced that abortion was simply a choice and nobody else's business. But afterwards, I couldn't escape the plain fact that abortion was killing our child because s/he didn't fit our plans. It's just as plain as day.
I was pretty hardcore back then, my opinions have actually mellowed a lot in the last 40 years.
Tom
My girlfriend, Judy, and I got pregnant. It was quite a trauma, since we were both in college and didn't even have jobs. We were considering all the options, including abortion. Then she miscarried.
That experience hugely changed my attitude towards abortion. Before that, I had graduated from 12 years of Catholic schooling convinced that abortion was simply a choice and nobody else's business. But afterwards, I couldn't escape the plain fact that abortion was killing our child because s/he didn't fit our plans. It's just as plain as day.
I was pretty hardcore back then, my opinions have actually mellowed a lot in the last 40 years.
Tom
None, for obvious reasons. But my best friend has two (6 and 2), and they've "adopted" me as a kind of uncle. I adore both of them, but especially the 6 year old boy...who unfortunately is just suffering from an autoimmune condition called HSP, but he'll get over it. I focus my "uncle energy" on making sure they get educational gifts that are fun.
I admit, at my ripe old age, knowing both these kids since they were born has given me one tiny twinge of regret at being gay. But it is what it is, and since I love them and they like me, I think I'll call that "enough to be going on with." (Nanny McPhee)
I admit, at my ripe old age, knowing both these kids since they were born has given me one tiny twinge of regret at being gay. But it is what it is, and since I love them and they like me, I think I'll call that "enough to be going on with." (Nanny McPhee)
None. It is not to be, alas. I often wish it could.
