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Do you want to be a mother or father some day??

  • 25-09-2011 08:30AM
    #1
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if you'd like to be a parent? I'm not offering :P

    Personally I'd like to be a father some day, I know it comes with a shed load of responsability but I'd like to pass on the genes, God help the poor mite :P

    I know that some here are parents, I had a good laugh at Biggins' post about one of his kids foaming the house :D


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  • #2
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    Tis a question i really can't answer at this stage... Maybe, maybe not. I have no strong feelings either way which probably means I shouldn't have a kid


  • #3
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    I wanted 4 after having 1 ive decided to just have 1:pac:


  • #4
    joshrogan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭joshrogan


    I'd like to be a mother, unfortunately I'm a man but I'm considering adopting and breastfeeding with this http://greatinventions.tv/products/images/mrmilker_large.png


  • #5
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Well I'm at a time in my life where I'm looking forward to being a grandfather actually, and that's the truth of it.

    I love children, and loved raring my own two.


  • #6
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I am a mother of 3, after no.3 I was so over being pregnant and all the toddler antics I was just riding the storm until she became fairly independent. Now they're all at school and it's great.

    I love them dearly, but I never want to go through baby stage again - I'm happy to mind my nephews and nieces but glad to hand them back!


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  • #7
    yogidc26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭yogidc26


    I have two so yes

    It is the best thing you will ever do in you life bring up little ones


  • #8
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    Jermaine Savory Sunstroke wrote: »
    Well I'm at a time in my life where I'm looking forward to being a grandfather actually, and that's the truth of it.

    I love children, and loved raring my own two.

    Good man, I have a terrible feeling I'll be a horrible parent, but I think it's one of those things you sort of figure out as you go :)

    I think women have an in built motherly instinct, whereas men are sort of dense, we try our best but to be honest, we are fairly thick when it comes to kids :D


  • #9
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    aligator_am wrote: »
    Good man, I have a terrible feeling I'll be a horrible parent, but I think it's one of those things you sort of figure out as you go :)

    I think women have an in built motherly instinct, whereas men are sort of dense, we try our best but to be honest, we are fairly thick when it comes to kids :D
    Im sure they skipped the motherly instinct with me, so probably best not to have a kid. id love to get a puppy though, does that count?


  • #10
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    joshrogan wrote: »
    I'd like to be a mother, unfortunately I'm a man but I'm considering adopting and breastfeeding with this http://greatinventions.tv/products/images/mrmilker_large.png

    Is that you Brad Pitt? :P


  • #11
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    booboo88 wrote: »
    Im sure they skipped the motherly instinct with me, so probably best not to have a kid. id love to get a puppy though, does that count?

    Hahahaha, only if it's a Jack Russell, cos they're made of super awesome material :D


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  • #12
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Didn't we have a similar thread last week? I know it asked "should you?" rather than "do you want to?", but to me the two questions are basically the same.

    Having a kid is not a luxury item like a piece of chocolate cake, where you could say "I want to but I shouldn't", then do it on anyway on a whim. It's such a major commitment that (in my case) knowing it's a bad idea stops me from wanting it.

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • #13
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    aligator_am wrote: »
    Hahahaha, only if it's a Jack Russell, cos they're made of super awesome material :D

    in my experience, jack russells just seem to bark at the wheels of passing cars.
    I want a scottie or a bichion frise, or however you spell it.


  • #14
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,956 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    I don't at this very moment in time. I did when i was in my early 20's, but now i'm in my late 20's i'm getting more selfish and don't think i'd be up to looking after babies. Give me a child at the age of 4/5 and i'll raise that, at least they can tell you why the fook they're crying and won't shut the fook up!

    I so don't have parental tendancies! :)


  • #15
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    booboo88 wrote: »
    Im sure they skipped the motherly instinct with me, so probably best not to have a kid. id love to get a puppy though, does that count?

    We got a dog last year (King Charles) and I'm not joking you, but he is harder work than the children!


  • #16
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    kelle wrote: »
    We got a dog last year (King Charles) and I'm not joking you, but he is harder work than the children!

    But they dont talk back, no weight gain(pregnancy)


  • #17
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I'd rather kill myself.


  • #18
    seanog_1981
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭seanog_1981


    I'd love to be a father, I've 6 neices and nephews and just seem to have a knack with kids, it's one of the v few natural talents I have but after a stream of disastrous relationships there's nothing on the horizon unfortunately.


  • #19
    Elmidena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭Elmidena


    I would like to be a mother or father some day, but I haven't decided which one yet


  • #20
    cjmcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    booboo88 wrote: »
    Im sure they skipped the motherly instinct with me, so probably best not to have a kid. id love to get a puppy though, does that count?


    ditto - my biological clock is digital or else the battery ran out - I've always said I'd never have children, and I was right, I usually am though! :D:D

    if you're getting a pet, get a cat, they'll feed themselves when you forget, also you can still go away for a week and they'll fend for themselves - dogs don't tend to do that!!!


  • #21
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    I can't wait to be a dad! In a weird way, I'm looking forward to the sacrifices I'll have to make - it gives purpose to the bull**** job and 9-5 drudgery.


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  • #22
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    I think I have missed the boat there! Couldn't imagine it anyway, I can barely look after myself.


  • #23
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    I was asked this in march, i asked for time to ponder it, i was told you have till december.:rolleyes:


  • #24
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    billybudd wrote: »
    I was asked this in march, i asked for time to ponder it, i was told you have till december.:rolleyes:

    from the missus?


  • #25
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    It's something you have to evaluate as you get older. And your views change, as with everything. Most people obviously don't want them or at least are not bothered when they are in a certain age bracket which is normal I would think.

    I always liked kids but wasn't always sure if I would have any but I couldn't imagine not having them now.


  • #26
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    booboo88 wrote: »
    Im sure they skipped the motherly instinct with me, so probably best not to have a kid. id love to get a puppy though, does that count?

    No because unfortunetly a lot of people think along the same lines, and when eventually a new bouncing baby arrives the dog is usually sent to the pound, where (in most pounds) if the dog is not rehomed within five working days its killed.

    I've two dogs, a lovely Pitbull (Richo) and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier (Ruby) and they're twenty times more work than a child, but just as affectionate and fun loving.


  • #27
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    py2006 wrote: »
    from the missus?

    yeah, the mistress would have been a better option :D


  • #28
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    cjmcork wrote: »
    ditto - my biological clock is digital or else the battery ran out - I've always said I'd never have children, and I was right, I usually am though! :D:D

    if you're getting a pet, get a cat, they'll feed themselves when you forget, also you can still go away for a week and they'll fend for themselves - dogs don't tend to do that!!!

    I just dont like cats ever since a friend in school during my lunch break decided to tell me her cat had her period. like i fecking need to know:mad:
    ever since then have hated cats


  • #29
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Note to people talking about paternal and maternal instincts. You don't have them until you have kids, hence the use of the words maternal or paternal. :)


  • #30
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    stovelid wrote: »
    Note to people talking about paternal and maternal instincts. You don't have them until you have kids, hence the use of the words maternal or paternal. :)

    would you not have these instincts when minding nephews/nieces? genuine question btw


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  • #31
    booboo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    stovelid wrote: »
    Note to people talking about paternal and maternal instincts. You don't have them until you have kids, hence the use of the words maternal or paternal. :)

    Note to stovelid, you usually have some instincts about yourself too, its usually called common sense ;)


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