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General Discussion => The Speakeasy: OOG/Off-topic Discussion => Topic started by: Lasairiona on 02 Jul 2013, 03:21
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Kat's thread got me thinking, how many of you have kids? How many kids do you have and how old are they? :) I have an awesome two year old named Alex who can be seen making random posts in OOC and other RP channels!
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I wish =/
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None iof my own yet :( But have 3 nieces and 2 nephews I adore :P
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Nope nope nope nope. Never, if I have anything to say about it.
In fact, this is why I did not get back together with my ex after I graduated from college (we'd split because of most of the effort having to be one-sided what with me not having a car, and fuckloads of schoolwork).
She'd gone and had one in the meantime (long story, not for these boards), and, well, I don't do the kid thing. We were a really good match otherwise, but kids are a dealbreaker for me because I know I don't have the patience for them. They're fine once you can ship them off to school during the day, but the five or so years before that, lolnope.
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+1 Morwen. Too expensive, too much effort, all the crying, the screaming.
I'll take the money I'd use for the spawn and buy myself a nice car and house tyvm.
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+1 Morwen. Too expensive, too much effort, all the crying, the screaming.
I'll take the money I'd use for the spawn and buy myself a nice car and house tyvm.
i used to think like that until a son was brought into this world......he's 8months old, and the world melts everytime he smiles.
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+1 Morwen. Too expensive, too much effort, all the crying, the screaming.
I'll take the money I'd use for the spawn and buy myself a nice car and house tyvm.
i used to think like that until a son was brought into this world......he's 8months old, and the world melts everytime he smiles.
I blame you and your son for the heat waves that keep slapping the US in the face, then. :P
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I have sired multiple bastards, but not yet a worthy heir to my genetic crown. Suffice it to say I don't keep in touch, and we shan't speak of it further. Then there are the clones whom we shan't discuss further also. I shall leave the concept of marriage until I am old and barely potent, ready to be conquered by a sole young and flawlessly beautiful woman (for that is the only chance they'll get.) For now there is too much conquest left in me to consider the creation of a proper descendant; being my genetic spoor, he will naturally be insufferably ambitious, and plot my assassination from the moment he learns the meaning of the word. While this is the death I most deeply desire in my heart of blackest hearts, and will be dreadfully disappointed in any heirs apparent that do not at least attempt a poisoning or bomb by age twelve, I shall fight its coming until my least of days, when I have tired of all things - until then, I shall continue acquiring empires for my descendants to inherit and piss away fighting over if they so choose, and searching their womenfolk for a creature of sufficiently high breeding to contain my willfully summoned kingmaking seed, which I reserve in my dominant testicle for such occasion.
I suppose the number of bastards in the meantime shall grow until I conduct a purge once their mewling attempts at playing cutthroat become something approaching a threat - a man has needs, in this case a stinging need for other men's wives, and a blade can't thrust wrapped in a scabbard.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40vjmOjcX1qavreso1_r1_500.gif)
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I'm beginning to think hellgremlin is just making this stuff up.
Two kids, Alexis (7) and Aria (4).
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No kids...would like to have a daughter (want to name her Alix...don't know why, just really like the name). Not sure if it'll happen though, and not sweating it too much. I do have two nephews though.
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I'm beginning to think hellgremlin is just making this stuff up.
Two kids, Alexis (7) and Aria (4).
I'm a master of ambiguous writing. Telling the truth, or spinning a tale? Who knows but I.
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I have an eight year old. My being pregnant with him is what drove me to EVE -- I was ordered home from work two months earlier than I'd planned, thanks to a near-fatal incident that resulted in my OB/GYN's insisting I needed to be in a stress free environment.
(Bear in mind that the near fatal incident happened at my birthday party, which was pretty darn stress free, but that's beside the point.)
Yes, I know that the words "stress free environment" and "EVE" shouldn't be in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence, but it was what it was.
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Got two of them. My oldest is my daughter, who's going into third grade soon. My son, the younger of the two, probably should consider some preschool for him soon. I both love them, and a few of you have gotten the pleasure of me telling you the funny things they say/do at times. :P
Vieve's story reminds me that I started EVE when my son was just a few days old. I would hold him while he slept in one arm, while I used the other to fly around shooting rats in missions. :lol:
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I got a daughter and she just passed her first year.
Though she is one of the primary reasons why I no longer can play Eve as much as I used to, I would not change. Basically, I want my presence in life to not be forgotten after I am gone. The easiest way to fulfill that is to get children.
Oh, and we will hopefully get another one in a couple of years.
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Behold the face of cuteness!, i warn you, once you open the door there is no turning back!
He shall inherit all my pixel belongings once he completes the rite of adulthood
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Two teenage daughters, both of whom are avid gamers and regularly clean my clock at Halo. :)
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As someone who hasn't been an adult for that long, no I don't. However, I would love to have daughters (mostly because I never got on with my own brother, but get on fine with my sister).
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Four kids, one girl age 11 and three boys ages 10, 8 and 4. They are all better at computers and electronics than I am but I drag them outside in the summer :) I blame all my white hairs on their antics but love them.
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One 5 year old boy. He is essentially my clone.
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Awwww! Hubby wants Alex to play eve too lol.
Anslo, weirdly enough, Alex doesn't cost that much and he's pretty well behaved. It's down to how you parent IMO.
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As a grandparent I am happy to report, soap bubbles are your friend!
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Eh, I'll chime in. We have one 3 year old boy who knows no fear, and is directly responsible for about half my white hairs. But wouldn't trade him for the world. And once he gets hand eye coordination under control, I will be giving him my hauler alt. I figure I can get about 5 years of that before I end up becoming HIS hauler alt.
And Bruno, strange, mine still sleeps like that with his head tilted back.
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One 4.5 year old boy who's mad for books, Mario, Lego, his dog and anything coloured pink. He speaks three languages, knows I only understand one of them well and relishes in using this to his advantage. Unfortunately, the only language-based skill I seem to have taught him is a long list of curse words 'we can't say' along with the contexts they're used in. He repeatedly reminds me of that list whenever I break the rule.
Lately he's been pestering me to teach him how to play 'that spaceship game' but New Eden's just not ready for him.
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Awwww! Hubby wants Alex to play eve too lol.
Anslo, weirdly enough, Alex doesn't cost that much and he's pretty well behaved. It's down to how you parent IMO.
^ This right here.
That said, I have a great deal of respect for people who have the courage to simply say "Kids aren't for me, not interested".
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Uh, why ? I'm definitely in that case and I do not see how I deserve such a respect... :eek:
Courageous people are people actually getting kids...
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Not really, no. There are plenty of people having kids because "that's what you do" or "it'll bring us closer together" or whatever reason, despite the fact that they really don't have any interest in being decent parents.
I like being a parent, I like my kids. I think being a parent was a good thing for me. That doesn't mean that I think it'd be a good thing for everyone.
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Not deciding to have kids proper, but actually keeping with it until the end, raising them, and coping with all of what it implies. That is what is courageous.
Consciously deciding that I don't want to deal with all of this seems rather the opposite to me. Not that I am a coward on the matter since I have a lot of rational reasons behind it (quite mixed on the matter), but maybe at least a little.
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I was an unplanned parent, with no idea what to do or how to do it. As a male who lacked a father figure, I always feel like I'm being a bit of a trailblazer in my efforts to 'be a good dad'. On the one hand, I often don't know how to react to certain situations... but as a child of an absent father, as long as I'm around, I'm doing better than he did.
Also, I am fucking terrified of their eventual adolescence. Seriously. Brix will be shat.
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Also, I am fucking terrified of their eventual adolescence. Seriously. Brix will be shat.
I am glad I had two sons, I wouldn't have know what to do with girls.
Good luck with that.
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Also, I am fucking terrified of their eventual adolescence. Seriously. Brix will be shat.
I am glad I had two sons, I wouldn't have know what to do with girls.
Good luck with that.
Boys are just as scary....especially if Alex takes after hubby....oi. :bash:
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Relevant, I think. (http://imgur.com/gallery/BHmREZR)
Kat, you should be fine as long as you make sure they understand that when they can't solve their problems with words or vicious school gossip, the only solution is curling irons at dawn. :P
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Relevant, I think. (http://imgur.com/gallery/BHmREZR)P
Totally relevant! And factual.
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(http://i.imgur.com/BHmREZR.png)
Kat, you should be fine as long as you make sure they understand that when they can't solve their problems with words or vicious school gossip, the only solution is curling irons at dawn. :P
Truth.
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Yeah, boys or girls, doesn't matter. When mine hits his teens, I'm on perminent red alert, because I lived throught high school, and I remember how many idiots there were.