Parents bragging about their kids is really sweet actually. Just as long as its about each kid individually and not like some weird collectors complex
“we’re going for a boy this time around! Fingers crossed!”
That shit always makes me think of card collecting or something.
I hope you roll a shiny :D
Me too! I considered weighing my wife before opening because I heard the rare ones have a slightly heavier weight. But she got really mad when I suggested that so I guess I’ll just play it fair and see what happens in 9 months.
The implicstion with a shiny would be that she cheated.
This is our second; Nat.
Natural 1.
“I orgasmed in my wife seven times!”
I only finished in her twice!
In the ye olden times, we’d rejoice over a successful birth, but modern medical care means that preganancy and birth is at its least fatalistic.
People had reasons to celebrate birth pre-1800s. Now, well…
It can be sweet, or it can be icky.
If the parent likes the kid for who they are, and is just happy to have a great relationship with another independent human, that’s great.
But, sometimes the parents are obsessed with having a kid who they can mould in their own image. They insist, for example, that the kid become amazing at football, because they never made it as a football player but through their kid they can live their own dreams vicariously.
My mother in law introducing herself as a “mother of six” and each of her children by their number order. “This is my fourth!”
😬😬😬
Breedpilled kidmaxxer or however they call it now
Getting offspringmogged by a serial reproducer
Why is this really Ooo-coded, something Finn would say in Adventure Time. Almost like we adopted the language of the apocalypse because we are experiencing an apocalyptic extinction of human life from war, soon to be nukes, and global warming
I swear to God that I will spit on the first person to try and communicate at me using these words. I will clear my nose.
Gross. And sad.
I disagree. I think 4chan is a disgusting cesspit and anything stemming from there should be purged.
Ahh to choose the spawnmogged sterilecel life… I wouldn’t have it any other way.
No no, go ahead and brag a little. It makes both of us happier about our different life choices.
Shoulda told him “Way to go, you and your wife have now doubled your replacement value. Now unless you’re planning on losing half of them to plague, famine, and war, you’re literally contributing to doubling the population density.”
Don’t have any kids, never wanted kids, zero regrets.
Man, I thought I couldn’t agree harder than the audiophile meme a few minutes ago. I was wrong.
Not worth bragging when you only do the easy (and fun) part of making children…
If they are actively going for a 4th, then he’s done something right. Raising 3 kids, with an unhelpful husband would be enough to put most women off having a 4th. Hell, even with a helpful husband!
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The scary thing is that it really seems to be the case that having a kid changes your brain, at least for most people. People who weren’t sure they wanted kids become completely different people who are absolutely obsessed with their kids.
That’s probably a good thing from an evolutionary point of view, but it’s freakish to see it happen. It’s also sometimes a tragedy when it doesn’t happen and someone who was ambivalent about having kids is not thrilled with having a kid when it happens.
Don’t worry about what will happen next, just keep going.
Bragging about not having family? You seem brainwashed to me.
For sure man. Anyone that has any opinions that differ from mine is brainwashed full stop. 🔥👊🔥😝🤪👊🔥👊💲💲💰
This kind of comment is like a copy paste. Yes you might have got brainwashed. So many corporations want you spend money on them, not on your family because “you deserve it”.
The real brainwashing is the idea that happiness only comes from having a family. In fact, attaching your happiness to anything external (i.e. the idea that happiness can only come from some set of circumstances, whether it be “having a family”, or having material wealth, or “that dream job”, etc), you’re gonna have a bad time and suffer quite a bit.
The whole idea of “happiness = having nuclear family” is a particularly western concept (although you see it in all parts of the modern world today) that is relatively new in human history.
This is anecdotal of course, but I have been single most of my adult life, and have never been happier. Don’t want kids, open to marriage if it’s right.
My friends who went the whole “get the house, get the job, get the family” are some of the most miserable people I know, and I feel bad that society/parents got to their heads that that is the only way to live life. Of course, there are plenty of people with families who are perfectly happy and content, and that is perfectly OK too.
A big issue with this kind of thinking is that we get miserable people only having kids because that’s what society says is successful, and not because they legitimately want kids, and then you get kids raised by people who don’t want to be parents. Which of course is never a good thing.
Totally agree. Glad I’m not happy and proud with my life, my relationship and the choices I’ve made.
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Although the remark about bragging suggests that this guy is unaware of the existence of other standards, which is something he can be legitimately mocked for.
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Lol you don’t need to have kids to be happy/successful and proud of your life.
You do if you have nothing to feel happy or successful about.
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That was my point. People with nothing to be happy about often use their children as substitutes.
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No, I’m shitting on parents who had kids because they thought the kids would fix their problems.
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Classic false dichotomy
I guess the sarcasm wasn’t as apparent as I thought it would be.
People really misunderstood this comment. Yikes.
My sarcasm wasn’t as apparent as I had hoped.
Why are you taking offense to someone saying your lifestyle sounds terrible to them? They’re not saying you must be unhappy, just that they don’t want to live that way.
I don’t want kids, and I’m sure those with kids that they wanted are very happy, and I’m glad there are people for whom that is a happy life because it wouldn’t be to me.
Gotta edit my comment to say I was totally being autistic and completely missed your joke on the first pass, my bad!
The remark about bragging suggests that this guy is unaware of the existence of other standards, which is something he can be legitimately mocked for.
I’m not taking offense. It sounded to me like the guy in this image was taking offense. I was asking the same questions, you’re asking me now. “Why would you take offense to someone saying they’re happy?” Clearly I’m the only one interpeting it that way
I don’t know if the original person in the picture meant it that way, but I do know that this meme is frequently used to start an antinatalist circle jerk, so I support you coming out swinging.
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Really hoping I didn’t come across as an antinatalist because I fucking hate antinatalists. They’re the dumbest fucking people.
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Haha thanks for the heads up. No regerts XD
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I really don’t understand your phrasing of your original comment then because it was really coming off as passive aggression
It’s a question of figuring out who and what you are. What defines you and gives you purpose as an individual vs tryimg to stuff all of that into a role that leans heavily on another human being doing that for you.
Oof, triggered?
They’re trying to convince themselves more than us.
