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Artemis · 1w
Seriously, if you are easily overstimulated, small children are NOT for you. I've often had to exercise sooo much patience just to not scream at a child that will not stop touching me. Kids are grea...
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My brother, as an adult, made a decision with his wife to have a baby, & now years later he's a single dad struggling to deal with extreme burnout & overstimulation that *apparently* he wasn't aware would be a thing. I have so much sympathy for him, because that shit is TOUGH, but I'm also stunned that he didn't know that's what he was signing up for.

Don't decide to have kids if you've never been responsible for caring for kids. You have no earthly idea what you are getting into.
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Artemis · 1w
If people had to have hundreds of hours of babysitting experience before making the choice to have kids, I'm certain a lot of folks would change their minds & opt not to. I have *thousands* of hours of childcare experience, & I have always loved kids. I also have no kids of my own, & I never intend...
Brumbrum-gigi · 1w
I do not know anybody who had previous experiences with kids before having them. Life is hard anyway. If you have kids your energies are toward them instead of yourself, if you don't have them you are following a false dream of being a teenager forever and you will die alone sad and forgotten. Those...