*shakes head sadly*
Sep. 24th, 2006 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Yet another case of somebody mistaking me for a mom. And telling me I would be happier if I spent all day with "my" kids instead of working (away from home, I presume - staying home *is* work).
Listen up, folks. Much though I love my nieces, and like spending time with them, and like watching them - I love giving them back at the end of the day.
If watching children isn't making me amazingly happy when it's only about 60 hours out of the week (little less, I think) - for sure I wouldn't love it more if I "quit my job" (my imaginary job, I suppose) and "stayed home". As it is, I get to sleep at night, don't have to do a l l the cleaning, don't have to wrangle grocery or clothes shopping with multiple children, don't have to pump bottles (well, I suppose Jenn wouldn't either if she stayed home, but then I shudder to think how she'd pay the bills), get to sleep late on the weekends, don't have to hang out with the kids on the weekends if I don't want to, and get several hours a day kid-free.
And life's not easy.
I don't know about anybody else, but I can tell you this - much though I love my nieces, I still don't want any of my own. Yes, I know it'd be "different with my own kids" - it'd be a hell of a lot harder, for one!
Of course, said silly in question also doesn't have any kids of her own, and isn't taking care of children as her job either, so I don't even want to know whose ass she pulled that line out of. She'd better try it before she goes on and tries to convert me to parental paradise again, that's all I have to say on the subject....
Listen up, folks. Much though I love my nieces, and like spending time with them, and like watching them - I love giving them back at the end of the day.
If watching children isn't making me amazingly happy when it's only about 60 hours out of the week (little less, I think) - for sure I wouldn't love it more if I "quit my job" (my imaginary job, I suppose) and "stayed home". As it is, I get to sleep at night, don't have to do a l l the cleaning, don't have to wrangle grocery or clothes shopping with multiple children, don't have to pump bottles (well, I suppose Jenn wouldn't either if she stayed home, but then I shudder to think how she'd pay the bills), get to sleep late on the weekends, don't have to hang out with the kids on the weekends if I don't want to, and get several hours a day kid-free.
And life's not easy.
I don't know about anybody else, but I can tell you this - much though I love my nieces, I still don't want any of my own. Yes, I know it'd be "different with my own kids" - it'd be a hell of a lot harder, for one!
Of course, said silly in question also doesn't have any kids of her own, and isn't taking care of children as her job either, so I don't even want to know whose ass she pulled that line out of. She'd better try it before she goes on and tries to convert me to parental paradise again, that's all I have to say on the subject....
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Date: 2006-09-25 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 02:31 am (UTC)Then again, there are plenty of women who have children, love them dearly, but just can't *do* the full-on Total Mommy thing, for any of a number of different reasons. That's when it's best to let the aunties, grandmas and nannies take up the slack.
And of course, there's the women like yourself who have no intention of having children of your own, for whatever reason, but still want to experience the company and raising of children to some extent. Aunties without children are totally a blessing, because frankly, once one has one's own kids, one's not so very eager to spend that much time with somebody else's.
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Date: 2006-09-25 03:01 am (UTC)Yeah, I noticed that. I was so busy being incensed that this person was making gross assumptions about me, though, that I didn't have the time to mention that sometimes, life doesn't have as many choices as we'd like.
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Date: 2006-09-25 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 02:31 am (UTC)Then again, there are plenty of women who have children, love them dearly, but just can't *do* the full-on Total Mommy thing, for any of a number of different reasons. That's when it's best to let the aunties, grandmas and nannies take up the slack.
And of course, there's the women like yourself who have no intention of having children of your own, for whatever reason, but still want to experience the company and raising of children to some extent. Aunties without children are totally a blessing, because frankly, once one has one's own kids, one's not so very eager to spend that much time with somebody else's.
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Date: 2006-09-25 03:01 am (UTC)Yeah, I noticed that. I was so busy being incensed that this person was making gross assumptions about me, though, that I didn't have the time to mention that sometimes, life doesn't have as many choices as we'd like.
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