my older sister once filed my pillow with pins. I didn't even think at the time it might have been her or that she was trying to hurt me. I calmly went to my dad for help removing them and had no idea why he got so mad at her.
my older sister once filed my pillow with pins. I didn't even think at the time it might have been her or that she was trying to hurt me. I calmly went to my dad for help removing them and had no idea why he got so mad at her.
I was the oldest by five years. My two half-sisters are less than a year and a half apart.
No, she's right. Working with very young children is hilarious and terrifying because they're so horrible to each other a good bit of the time since they haven't learned to care about the feelings of others yet.
Or the bear assassin she hired and now must get rid of.
This American Life had a child psychologist on a month or two ago who said "The only reason the human race has survived is that 2-year-olds are too puny to properly use lethal weapons."
I have often said it's a good thing little kids are cute because it is seriously the only reason we let them live. They are indeed stone cold little sociopaths. Back when she was 3 my (now completely mature and well adjusted) daughter used to talk about how when she was a grown up I would be dead and she would go to…
So many people don't believe that. It puts a different spin on the phrase "getting in touch with your inner child."
Yup, kids have to be taught empathy, they don't just "get" it.
Ha! With that attitude, she/he was probably a great Kindergarten teacher!
As someone with a younger sister who tormented me for most of my life, I can say this list is legit. Who among us with siblings haven't thought of this stuff?
I used to be a Kindergarten teacher and the first lesson I learned was that children, almost without exception, are all little sociopaths.
I like that she still wants to fit in "dye his carpet pink" between all that evil.
I always reply to that sentiment that there are far more people who HAVE kids for selfish reasons than the other way around.
I think a lot of people pervert the following idea/feeling:
Kids can be nice little people. They're fun to hang out with. That doesn't mean I have any desire to have one of my own.
Hell, I'm pregnant now and I'm not ready (granted, no amount of books and maternal instincts will ever prepare me). There is this assumptions that when you are pregnant you should be head over heels and cooing away. Well guess what motherfuckers..I'm not. I'm not bummed out about but I'm not in glorious glowing…
I rarely have opinions on celebs but she really seems cool. last summer I sat next to her at a courtyard restaurant and she was casually signing with a deaf friend before leaving to catch a plane in the cleanest white pants and lime green sneakers I ever saw, and she smiled at everyone on the way out. a friend of mine…
People are fucking weird. Do people just assume that every human being is cut out to take care of another life? Why in the world would we expect everyone to have children when very clearly a LOT of people should not. I love kids, I love taking care of them. But caring occasionally for my niece and coaching a kids…
What about it are you uncomfortable with? Because if you'd love to spend that money traveling and eating expensive foods more than you'd love to spend it on a child - you should absolutely do that!
What about not having children makes you uncomfortable? Do you have a desire to procreate or are you feeling pressured into it?