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Wrong. It is because the kids pick up bad habits from their selfish and immature parents.
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Originally Posted by sr1234
Easy. When the majority of parents in our society spoil their kids and ignore the problems. I can't tell you how many people I know that are constantly getting calls from school or attending parent-teacher-principal conferences because their "perfect" kids are terrors. I have one co-worker who has an 9 year old that has already gone through an anger management course. Most kids are brats.
Generally, I find kids quite charming. But I am reminded of what George Carlin said about today's parents--they are a bunch of diaper sniffers. I was reminded of this when a friend of mine firmly pressed the rear end of his 6-month-old into his face (the kid was clothed) and took a deep sniff. But 20 seconds later, he repeated this, and it seemed like he was really enjoying himself. "Diaper sniffer," I muttered under my breath. I'm not begrudging a parent this apparent pleasure. But don't think that your friends enjoy witnessing this.
George Carlin had it so right about kids and parents.
45 year olds when you're 85?! ha...ha...hahaha.... Do you have a lot of money or something? At 85, you are going to look...like an 85 year old. You are going to be trying to hold your urine, not bedding hot-to-trot middle aged women?!
Generally, I find kids quite charming. But I am reminded of what George Carlin said about today's parents--they are a bunch of diaper sniffers. I was reminded of this when a friend of mine firmly pressed the rear end of his 6-month-old into his face (the kid was clothed) and took a deep sniff. But 20 seconds later, he repeated this, and it seemed like he was really enjoying himself. "Diaper sniffer," I muttered under my breath. I'm not begrudging a parent this apparent pleasure. But don't think that your friends enjoy witnessing this.
I have never heard of ANY parent enjoying the smell of a diaper...
It's not exactly the kind of thing someone is going to admit to! And I acknowledge that the above article says "less repulsive" and not "enjoys." But I have a sneaking suspicion that parents do like the smell of their baby's poop. But it may be a certain kind of parent--THE DIAPER SNIFFERS!
Agreed. But what it is reflective of, I think, is the observations and perceptions that we "over-40-never-married-no-children" have of our friends and acquaintances who do have kids. It is a mixed bag of positive and negative. As charming as I find kids, as much as they can pull at my heart strings, I often wonder why people have them. In a by-gone era, people had kids because there was no modern contraception, kids were needed to run the family farm, business, or to inherit land and titles. But these reasons have mostly disappeared, at least here in the U.S.
I have an uncle who is over 50 and never married with no kids. He is a great guy and has a lot to offer, but is not good looking and is too picky. He wants women "out of his league", but wants them to overlook his appearance and financial status. Although, since he believes marriage is forever, I understand him not wanting to settle and being unhappy for it.
Since I'm a lot like him in other ways (except I am much better looking :P), I'm making sure I don't get too picky, haha. I definitely try and keep an open mind with dating.
I don't expect to marry young though, as I feel like I need to develop more as a person still. I've seen women marry around age 40 and they have great marriages...better than many women who married very young. I don't know if that is typical, but it makes sense to me that as you get older and wiser you would pick a better mate.
I don't want children, so I'd be cool with not getting married til I am older in that respect, but otherwise having a permanent companion would be nice.
Generally, I find kids quite charming. But I am reminded of what George Carlin said about today's parents--they are a bunch of diaper sniffers. I was reminded of this when a friend of mine firmly pressed the rear end of his 6-month-old into his face (the kid was clothed) and took a deep sniff. But 20 seconds later, he repeated this, and it seemed like he was really enjoying himself. "Diaper sniffer," I muttered under my breath. I'm not begrudging a parent this apparent pleasure. But don't think that your friends enjoy witnessing this.
He wasn't enjoying himself! It's hard to tell the difference in gas and poop at certain ages so sometimes you have to sniff to see. No one wants to change a wriggling kid if they don't need it.
I'm intrigued by so many of these "why do people have kids" musings on here. Do you think that you were hatched or dropped on your parent's doorstep by the stork?
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He wasn't enjoying himself! It's hard to tell the difference in gas and poop at certain ages so sometimes you have to sniff to see. No one wants to change a wriggling kid if they don't need it. 
