| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Got Kids? |
| Nope |
|
56% |
[ 21 ] |
| Under 3 years |
|
16% |
[ 6 ] |
| Between nursery school and first grade |
|
18% |
[ 7 ] |
| In Grade School or Middle School |
|
5% |
[ 2 ] |
| In High School |
|
2% |
[ 1 ] |
| In College |
|
0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Out on their own. Yeah!! |
|
0% |
[ 0 ] |
|
| Total Votes : 37 |
|
| Author |
Message |
BittenBuggy
Joined: 27 Dec 2003
Posts: 2108
Location: Busy Being the Queen Of Everything.. And Trying to Catch the Yoda-Copter
|
 Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:08 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
Cats are nasty, and they eat you if you die. Dogs dont do that, cats are just self-absorbed little brats that stink to high heaven. 
_________________
-The Queen of Everything - so dubed by Aerin
-"My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'."
-"The Pope! how many divisions has he got?" - Stalin |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Moralanqua
Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 1051
Location: Scotland
|
| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
No they dont! My pussy smells nice!
_________________
I am no longer posting on the Forums. If you need me, I am lurking in the archives, reading and reviewing. You can also catch me at Demented Indigo! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
miriel361
Joined: 10 Jun 2003
Posts: 417
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:45 am Post subject: |
|
|
I have two children aged 7 and 9. I had to buy them a playstation because they never get to play any games on the computer.
Do they influence my writing? Oh yes, definately the amount of time I don't get to the computer. What with house, garden, taxi service, job, extramural course and supervision of their homework..... I sometimes wonder how I get time to write at all. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Ania
Joined: 08 Sep 2003
Posts: 198
Location: Britain
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:17 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | I feel so young! I'm coming up to my 20th birthday |
I win on the young count! 18 and approaching 19, am in last year of college, but want to have kids some day...by the way, you can't choose between cats and dogs (have some of both) they're both special in their own ways. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Vulgarweed
Joined: 13 Feb 2004
Posts: 31
Location: The Sickly Crescent (Best Tavern in the Morgul Vale)
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:36 am Post subject: |
|
|
Not many people are ambidextrous on the pet front.
I grew up with dogs, but I have cats now. City apartment. Go out of town a lot. Weird irregular schedules not good for walking. Dogs noisier...you get the idea. I love the kitties.
No kids. I'm told a lot of women feel a sort of instinctual interest in/affection/desire for them. I'll take their word for it--it just hasn't happened to me, not a flicker. And if I'm going to 'change my mind,' as they always said I would, it better happen soon; I'll be 35 this summer. If it never does, no biggie. (I am very career-driven and happy that way, after all; fortunately my guy isn't--he's the one who'd stay home if it came to that).
Cheers to you with the li'l shavers though: it's good to see smart people reproduce.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Hathor
Joined: 09 Jun 2003
Posts: 346
Location: Lancashire, England
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:29 am Post subject: |
|
|
Don't have any kids, and I don't really see any in the future because whilst the idea of a child is, y'know, nice, on the other hand the idea of having someone dependant on me for eighteen odd years is terrifying.
Mind you, I have terible mothering instincts and probably inflict them on various friends and also the Guide unit I help out with. (I'm in training to actually get my own unit...)
I do, however, have a venus fly trap called Vinnie. Does he count?
_________________
~Hathor~
Owner of 'Just Another Hole' and Lindir, The Pretty Noldo Totty
Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
dolarabee
Site Admin
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Posts: 175
Location: Sydney, Australia
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
33. Married (as you all know  ). No kids - though we seem to be talking about them a lot lately. Cats. Two now. Lost one a couple of weeks ago to cancer.
Can't say if kids would influence my writing but I can tell you cats do... you should see Beamish when she decides the keyboard has got to be the comfiest place to plonk her ass down. 
Most of my friends have kids, and most of them aren't married. (It's kind of a trend in Québec... you go de facto.) Some had them young, and others only recently. Maybe I'd be more influenced if I was still living back home. As it is here in Australia, the only pressure outside my mom is my biological clock...
do.
_________________
Je sais de la vie qu'elle se termine souvent au lit,
Et que d'autres ont bien plus de chance trépassent de rire ou de jouissance,
Mais pire que la mort qui vient c'est l'amour qui ne vient jamais.
~ Daniel Bélanger |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Maram68
Challenge Admin
Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 535
Location: West from East
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:34 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Vulgarweed wrote: | | Not many people are ambidextrous on the pet front. |
MEEEEEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! *raising hand frantically*
I have a cat and a dog. I have both for the past 12 years.
And I have two kids (3 1/2 and 7) who are LOTR geeks like their mom.
Talk about reproducing ...
I am 36 and wasn't able to get pregnant until close to my thirties. But there you go!
_________________
Lord, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to change the things I can and the Wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I may have to kill because they piss me off. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Anna
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
Posts: 548
Location: Sweden
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:42 am Post subject: |
|
|
One kid. A girl. 2,5 years old. Extemely obstinate right now. Cute anyway. No furry pets (unless the hubby counts...), only boring fish. Want a dog - a bullterrier. No cats, thank god! Nasty little creatures. I don´t understand them at all, which is probably because of how horribly allergic I am to cats.
I was 28 when my daughter was born. That´s quite normal in Sweden. Oh, I´m not married, btw. I know, I call my boyfriend 'hubby', but 'boyfriend' doesn´t really sound right after living together for eight years and having a child together. We will get married someday, I think. We´ve been engaged since -97, after all. 
My daughter doesn´t influence my writing, since it´s always been close to non-existent even before she was born. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
TrissMarigold
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
Posts: 0
Location: the land of dreams
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
No children yet but i definitely want some in the future (near future). Two (boy and then a girl) or four would be perfect. I'm 20, will be 21 in a month and maternal instincts fully awoken. No boyfriend right now so i'll have to wait with kids yet
Seriously speeking i think i'll wait until i finish my studies or the father of my future children does, or has a job. I can't bring a new human beeing into this world when both parents of the baby have no jobs, are still studying and living with their parents, right?
As for now i have a cat (and am rather scared of dogs - big ones).
Triss Marigold |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
NancyBrooke
Challenge Admin
Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 160
Location: In a motel 6 by the airport
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Forgive me but I feel moved to state the obvious to all you planning or dreaming about kids:
1) You have to take what you get, genderwise. I think reproducing until you get a boy or girl is a true evil (not that any of you intimated you would do that). And while you may want multiple now, you may find out, as I did, that one (obstinate! ) is all you can handle.
2) As my OB-GYN told me "there is never a right time, if everyone had kids only when they were ready there wouldn't be any."
3) If you start being flexible about your plans now, you'll be a step ahead when you do have a child.
Here's another quote, this from a good friend of mine with two small boys: "If you just set your expectations to zero everything turns out fine."
_________________
NB Duchess of WHY TF Cant'chu Punctuate, First Duchess of F*&(ing &*ll yur comma placement sux!
Nazgul #3 in charge of ducking & sniggering
Garo golf a conu ned i eneth aran an ir ho delitha ad |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Robbie
Site Admin
Joined: 22 Jun 2003
Posts: 1100
Location: Sydney, Australia.
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well, from the male side of things, just one kid. Michael 2nd (or junior as we call him.)
Don't see him much, now. I last saw him on a train in Epson Downs, and that was a few years ago.
_________________
Rob
www.crackingegg.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Ninde
Joined: 24 Mar 2004
Posts: 0
Location: Headed for Middle Earth
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I have 3  , 1 daughter 17 years old, and 2 sons 15 & 28 years old...the oldest still lives at home..I cut the apron string, but he sewed it back on, now makes a living of checking out the comfort of my couch..my youngest starts high school this August, I informed him he is getting old, but I am not, I refuse to(lol).. my daughter will finish high school this year, then in about a year she intends on going through fire standards, to be a firefighter... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Andreth
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
Posts: 1211
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Panneth wrote: | I feel so young! I'm coming up to my 20th birthday Anna, I can't imagine having a kid at this age. How did you cope? I'm barely organised enough to remember to cook and clean for myself, let alone fit all my studies. Total admiration from me  |
Nah, don't give me too much credit. I was your basic didn't-know-my-ass-from-a-hole-in-the-ground young adult until about a month before I delivered my first son. Then the nesting instinct took hold and hasn't let go since. I started having children early because I came from a family of six kids, so I thought I would have six kids. Of course, I only thought I wanted six until I had two. After that I decided two was more than enough. My four year old was a Surprise! baby. And let me tell you, losing baby weight at 20 and at 30 are worlds apart. At 20 it took me two months - at 30 it took me two years and lots of tae-bo. 
Last edited by Andreth on Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:01 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Andreth
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
Posts: 1211
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Sindohte wrote: | | Sheesh, I feel old since I have entered my third decade of life without children. |
Nah, don't feel old, Sind. My mother was 39 when she had me and 41 when she had my brother (Dad was 55 and 57, respectively) so you've got plenty of time. Although my older brother does say that my mother's ovaries were scraping the bottom of the barrel by her 40s and claims these 'past the expiration date eggs' are the reason my younger brother and I are so odd. Families, you gotta love them. At least that's what I keep telling myself. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Live Journal Feed
