The "things that make you realise you're getting older" thread

[Champ]

I'm sure Lifey has super swimmers.

Pickled in alcohol, I heard

[lifetime fan]

I'm sure Lifey has super swimmers.

Bollocks, beat me to it.

[Champ]

The reality is that for most there is no 'right' time to have kids, not least because your perspective changes over time. From wanting no kids when I first got married, to being absolutely ready by the time I was 25, I didn't have my first until I was 30 but even then I really wasnt sure we could afford it. Now, as I approach my kids' independence if I had my chance again I'd have had them when I was younger. I want time now to do some things to suit myself before being faced with the failing of my parents' health, when it comes, and the potential arrival of grandchildren.

 

There's just never enough time

[Chairman Meow]

She can't get pregnant out here yet anyway (stoned to death) so I can carry on putting it up there for a while yet.

 

You could always just try the morning after pill, it's not guaranteed 100% effective like her being stoned to death would be but it's probably a little easier and you're less likely to have her whining on about it. It's worth looking into. 

 

The reality is that for most there is no 'right' time to have kids, not least because your perspective changes over time. From wanting no kids when I first got married, to being absolutely ready by the time I was 25, I didn't have my first until I was 30 but even then I really wasnt sure we could afford it. Now, as I approach my kids' independence if I had my chance again I'd have had them when I was younger. I want time now to do some things to suit myself before being faced with the failing of my parents' health, when it comes, and the potential arrival of grandchildren.

 

There's just never enough time

 

I'm 35 and I still don't see me ever having kids. I love my little cousins and my mates two kids but that's great just being Uncle Chris, I turn up with sweets, play football and games with them for a day and then bugger off. It's very easy being fun Uncle Chris who acts around the same age as them but actually being responsible for them properly. Fuck that!

[stringvest]

There's no right age; you'll know when (if) you get there.  

[lifetime fan]

I get the 'never a right time' comment but she's like to be married first and if she gets pregnant out here before we're married she's on the first flight home the next morning.

[lifetime fan]

You could always just try the morning after pill, it's not guaranteed 100% effective like her being stoned to death would be but it's probably a little easier and you're less likely to have her whining on about it. It's worth looking into.

She's got an implant, no way am I having a bath with my socks on.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

You could always just try the morning after pill, it's not guaranteed 100% effective like her being stoned to death would be but it's probably a little easier and you're less likely to have her whining on about it. It's worth looking into. 

 

 

I'm 35 and I still don't see me ever having kids. I love my little cousins and my mates two kids but that's great just being Uncle Chris, I turn up with sweets, play football and games with them for a day and then bugger off. It's very easy being fun Uncle Chris who acts around the same age as them but actually being responsible for them properly. Fuck that!

 

Like most things in life, you get out what you put in. Being a parent is tough and a lot of responsibility but nothing I have ever done comes close it in terms of it ability to bring you to your knees with emotion. It's an incredible roller-coaster. And she's only 5.

[Furmedge]

Kids are boss, but fucking expensive. Childcare alone costs us close to £1200 a month.

[littletedwest]

fucking hell. I only just earn that much after tax. Glad I only have a dog. bag of winalot and the odd bone does the trick.

[lifetime fan]

Kids are boss, but fucking expensive. Childcare alone costs us close to £1200 a month.

Always keep the mother-in-law sweet.

[Furmedge]

Always keep the mother-in-law sweet.

Mine lives 300 miles away. Still too close.

[Furmedge]

fucking hell. I only just earn that much after tax. Glad I only have a dog. bag of winalot and the odd bone does the trick.

 

SD territory here.

[Captain Turdseye]

Mine lives 300 miles away. Still too close.

Mine lives over the road but she's a spiteful fucking psycho slag. Disappointing really as if she wasn't she could look after mine today. Baby's not well, can't go to nursery and I'm meant to be leaving for work in two hours. Ringing round trying to find someone suitable to look after her now but with no joy.

 

Looks like I'll have to ring in sick, put her to bed and watch Better Call Saul. Fuck my life.

[Furmedge]

I signed up for a donor scheme this morning. When I was younger I couldn't give a shit about that sort of stuff but reading a story this morning about a 7 year old kid needing a bone marrow transplant so I've signed up and go for an appointment thursday to see if I by any chance match.

 

 

[lifetime fan]

Mine lives over the road but she's a spiteful fucking psycho slag. Disappointing really as if she wasn't she could look after mine today. Baby's not well, can't go to nursery and I'm meant to be leaving for work in two hours. Ringing round trying to find someone suitable to look after her now but with no joy.

 

Looks like I'll have to ring in sick, put her to bed and watch Better Call Saul. Fuck my life.

And I bet the missus will claim you've had it easy when she gets home too.

 

Ungrateful cow.

[Chairman Meow]

Like most things in life, you get out what you put in. Being a parent is tough and a lot of responsibility but nothing I have ever done comes close it in terms of it ability to bring you to your knees with emotion. It's an incredible roller-coaster. And she's only 5.

 

I don't necessarily disagree, it's not like I don't like kids. Just whatever that thing is that makes people want their own isn't in me, it isn't so much a purely selfish wanting my own life thing although that may be part of it for me, the desire just isn't there for it at all.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

I don't necessarily disagree, it's not like I don't like kids. Just whatever that thing is that makes people want their own isn't in me, it isn't so much a purely selfish wanting my own life thing although that may be part of it for me, the desire just isn't there for it at all.

 

This is going to sound awful, but I didn't want/plan mine either. I was 21 and thought it was the end of my life basically. Never have I been so glad to have been proven so very, very wrong.

[lifetime fan]

I don't necessarily disagree, it's not like I don't like kids. Just whatever that thing is that makes people want their own isn't in me, it isn't so much a purely selfish wanting my own life thing although that may be part of it for me, the desire just isn't there for it at all.

I was exactly the same mate, 'how could I have kids, I'm a fucking big kid myself'?

 

That was until just before Christmas when we had a scare and I was gutted she wasn't pregnant. I hadn't even thought about it, it was just a natural reaction of disappointment.

 

Ever since then my clock is ticking worse than hers!

[Paulie Dangerously]

Kids are great. Best thing I ever did despite the hard work.

 

[stringvest]

Kids are great. Best thing I ever did despite the hard work.

 

you should have asked her to go on top.

[melons]

He's awesome mate, we'd like 4 but as you say hard work. And bloody expensive.

 

After the second the caring lark becomes a piece of cake, you don't even have to worry about feeding them as the older kids remind you. IT gets better when they have to remind you of their name. I just do head counts when it comes to family outings. 

 

 

Mate, there are so many variables that you're blessed/lucky to have one (depending on your POV) and very lucky to have the number you want.

 

If you want four, I'd get cracking now!

 

Indeed, I had fertility treatment for some of my lot, I would love another but not sure I could face the full on emotional roller coaster again. 

 

 

Of course. 4 would be an ideal but one would be a dream.

 

She may even have problems conceiving etc.

 

She? Ha! The confidence you've got in your swimmers! 

[lifetime fan]

After the second the caring lark becomes a piece of cake, you don't even have to worry about feeding them as the older kids remind you. IT gets better when they have to remind you of their name. I just do head counts when it comes to family outings.

 

 

 

Indeed, I had fertility treatment for some of my lot, I would love another but not sure I could face the full on emotional roller coaster again.

 

 

 

She? Ha! The confidence you've got in your swimmers!

The fucking mess I make...my swimmers would put Phelps to shame.

[Chairman Meow]

Due to previous scares I can confirm that my own swimmers are in perfect working order. The "I'm late" phone calls, they never cease to be terrifying. 

 

Anonymous donations gladly given, must be totally anonymous though, I don't want those buggers in the CSA trying to take my cash. 

[Champ]

The fucking mess I make...my swimmers would put Phelps to shame.

 

Quality, not quantity is the name of the game