What Are You Doing Right Now
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@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticjeremy meh... I was petrified when I was your age that I would have to deal with teenagers, now that I am older, hit 40 next week, it isn't that big of a deal.
This sounds like you have boys though. Is this the case?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticjeremy meh... I was petrified when I was your age that I would have to deal with teenagers, now that I am older, hit 40 next week, it isn't that big of a deal.
This sounds like you have boys though. Is this the case?
He mentions a daughter that is 14
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Youngest starts pre-k and the oldest is going into 2nd grade. We don't qualify for school pre-K, so we're doing the whole "homeschool" thing for him. Both kids were excited for school to start.
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God's speed dad's of ML
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This all makes me glad that birth control is cheap, effective, and covered by insurance. But I might consider having kids if you could crate train them without CPS getting upset.
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Being a parent is the scariest thing I can think of
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This all makes me glad that birth control is cheap, effective, and covered by insurance. But I might consider having kids if you could crate train them without CPS getting upset.
What could CPS possibly get upset about if they don't know you have kids, crated in the basement. . .
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This all makes me glad that birth control is cheap, effective, and covered by insurance. But I might consider having kids if you could crate train them without CPS getting upset.
What could CPS possibly get upset about if they don't know you have kids, crated in the basement. . .
Well at some point they would be at school or in a social situation where they might figure out other kids are not confined to crates...
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This all makes me glad that birth control is cheap, effective, and covered by insurance. But I might consider having kids if you could crate train them without CPS getting upset.
What could CPS possibly get upset about if they don't know you have kids, crated in the basement. . .
Well at some point they would be at school or in a social situation where they might figure out other kids are not confined to crates...
See I thought we were setting this up to be a home school situation
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And now you all are on a list somewhere. lol
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This all makes me glad that birth control is cheap, effective, and covered by insurance. But I might consider having kids if you could crate train them without CPS getting upset.
What could CPS possibly get upset about if they don't know you have kids, crated in the basement. . .
Well at some point they would be at school or in a social situation where they might figure out other kids are not confined to crates...
See I thought we were setting this up to be a home school situation
It doesn't take too long to teach them "go lie down", "kennel", and "don't make me get the spray bottle".
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My daughter just turned 1 in July. It's been one of the most fun and rewarding things I've done. Even sitting up with her for the night with her screaming wasn't the terrible experience that everyone made it out to be.
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@coliver I'm more afraid of dating but you have a ways to go to get there
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'm more afraid of dating but you have a ways to go to get there
Eh, my plan is to raise someone who can think for themselves prior to that time. Makes the whole being manipulated by your peers thing a bit easier to deal with. Although I'm sure that's every parent's plan.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My daughter just turned 1 in July. It's been one of the most fun and rewarding things I've done. Even sitting up with her for the night with her screaming wasn't the terrible experience that everyone made it out to be.
It's true. It's well worth it. Just need that extra coffee in the morning is all.
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@coliver I saw a lot of good kids with shitty parents and a lot of bad kids with great parents. Sometimes it's not up to you
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I saw a lot of good kids with shitty parents and a lot of bad kids with great parents. Sometimes it's not up to you
It's like the example of the alcoholic father, there are plenty of people that had alcoholic parents that either became alcoholics themselves or used it as a driving force to never become an alcoholic themselves. Everyone is their own person, sure we may be predisposed to certain things but at the end of the day we're each our own person still and make our own choices.
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@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I saw a lot of good kids with shitty parents and a lot of bad kids with great parents. Sometimes it's not up to you
It's like the example of the alcoholic father, there are plenty of people that had alcoholic parents that either became alcoholics themselves or used it as a driving force to never become an alcoholic themselves. Everyone is their own person, sure we may be predisposed to certain things but at the end of the day we're each our own person still and make our own choices.
Yeah. My brother and I were raised by the same parents. I never got in trouble, did drugs, stole, any of that stuff. My brother did it all. Same nurture, different nature.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I saw a lot of good kids with shitty parents and a lot of bad kids with great parents. Sometimes it's not up to you
It's like the example of the alcoholic father, there are plenty of people that had alcoholic parents that either became alcoholics themselves or used it as a driving force to never become an alcoholic themselves. Everyone is their own person, sure we may be predisposed to certain things but at the end of the day we're each our own person still and make our own choices.
Yeah. My brother and I were raised by the same parents. I never got in trouble, did drugs, stole, any of that stuff. My brother did it all. Same nurture, different nature.
Each person has their own path, with their own experiences that molds us into the people that we are at any point in time. Every interaction, every thought, every decision, keeps pushes us into who we were, who we are, and who we're going to be.
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I saw a lot of good kids with shitty parents and a lot of bad kids with great parents. Sometimes it's not up to you
It's like the example of the alcoholic father, there are plenty of people that had alcoholic parents that either became alcoholics themselves or used it as a driving force to never become an alcoholic themselves. Everyone is their own person, sure we may be predisposed to certain things but at the end of the day we're each our own person still and make our own choices.
Yeah. My brother and I were raised by the same parents. I never got in trouble, did drugs, stole, any of that stuff. My brother did it all. Same nurture, different nature.
Each person has their own path, with their own experiences that molds us into the people that we are at any point in time. Every interaction, every thought, every decision, keeps pushes us into who we were, who we are, and who we're going to be.
My desire to be a 'good person' or 'honest', however you want to put it, comes from absolute selfishness. I am extremely hard on myself and if I do the wrong thing knowing what the right thing to do in a situation is, the guilt is a heavy weight on me. I try to avoid that at all costs and fortunately it points me in the right direction.
