How many kids would you like to have someday?
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How many kids would you like to have someday?
I have one. Maybe, and this is a big maybe, another one someday. Probably just one, though
Either one or two.
I've always thought 2 kids would be a good number, but I don't really know. I'm sure that thought would change once I'm actually in a relationship and trying for that. I do want to have at least one kid someday.
I'd like to have two, maybe one of each. If I had two boys, I'd name them Mario & Luigi. If I had two girls, I'd name them Penelo & Vaanessa (copyright 2014 Colonel Angus). :D
Before that, I'd have to get a date first. :(
>>> Zero for me..:luca:
I'm kind of done having kids. Parker is all I need...
There's a gigantic age gap between my siblings and me and I don't want that for my girl- so I figure the window's already closed. Plus, she's already said she doesn't want brothers or sisters & doesn't want me to get married, and I mad respect that.
My boyfriend wants kids down the road, but I'm very against being like 35+ and having a child. I find it very selfish of the parent(s) for a lot of reasons. And just the whole being pregnant again thing doesn't really appeal to me.
Maybe I'll change my mind someday.. After I get my girl back, but I just don't really see it happening anytime soon.
Right now I'm thinking none, but I'm way too young to really know, so I voted no idea. All I know is that I really don't want kids yet. If that ever changes, I will deal with it then.
I dunno. I just had breakfast so I'm not especially hungry right now. Maybe one or two?
Hold on, what about the American dream of a little house with a white picket fence, a dog, and 2.5 kids?
Can I have 2.5 kids?
Tell us what qualifies as .5 of a kid and I will answer you.
Arms and legs.
No torso?
No, just the arms and legs. And if you're lucky, a freezer to keep them in.
Edit: This was my 1,000th post. No regrets.
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Brutal.
Nah what you want is vertical bisecting, that'll be much more likely to guarantee exactly .5 of a kid.
But the heart is slightly to the left. If I get the right side of the kid, it's dead, and if I get the left side, the organs are not distributed evenly!
Loco makes very valid points here.
"A basement full of children." :erm:
Yes? What is the problem, sir?
stop it, you're killing me xD
TOO MUCH REP GIVEN OUT GODDAMNIT
EoFF Immortal status, here I come.
A basement full of children does not sound right.
3.
Have one (see thread in FF3 forum), and my wife and I are planning to adopt soon, so that'll make 2. Whether a third comes after that (biological or adopted), we'll play by ear. But most likely just 2, so that's what I voted.
I'd like to have one of each binary gender but I'll stop if I get three the same or if I have one or two but then dont have enough money to support more. I'll probably have zero though.
What I really want though is a "basement full" of nieces and nephews so it's all fun and no work with uncle Nuke.
Baby number one, halfway done!
Baby number two, that'll do!
Baby number three, vasectomy!
I wrote that little rhyme myself a long time ago and it's stuck with me. Also, it's quite serious about how I feel about having kids!
Well I have three already (It's too laaate), so why stop there?
None,
im not a childrens person.
and i do not want the responsibility mentaly and financialy
Ideally I'd like 2 or 3, but more and more these days I'm thinking I'm never gonna have any :-/
Welp, guess I better get to work. *unzips*
lol
I think I'd like 1-2. But who knows what the future holds.
2-4 but i wont be able to afford any kids so i will probably never have any
I would love to have two kids, I'd say that's probably the ideal for me. One a boy, one a girl, seems about right.
As to when I'd want kids, hard to say. If I'm 19 now, and assuming that me and Sam are still going strong, having the first child between the ages of 27-30 sounds about right. The key thing is money, and I'd like to be at least engaged before having the first one.
Overall though, I'll have them when me and Sam are ready.
They do cost a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Parker
I find children loud and irritating, and they produce an unpleasant odor.
Zero children will be just fine with me.
The Duggars have a basement full of children.
Just saying.
If you & Mr. Shauna ever have a son, please name him Tidus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shauna
Lord no. xD
I doubt I'll have children, but if I do, I think one will do. I want a little girl that i can spoil the trout out of. In a responsible way, of course.
2 or 3 would be cool.
Two, and at least three years apart please no twins kthanx. I'm kind of against having just one child, because only children tend to be little assholes, but if I just have one that's fine too. If he/she is really adorable and smart that willl make up for him/her being a little asshole.
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Originally Posted by Shiny
Guessing you're an only child?Quote:
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Originally Posted by Shiny
Maybe. :shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by FormalhautGuessing you're an only child?Quote:
Originally Posted by AlaynaMae:shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
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Originally Posted by AlaynaMaeMaybe. :shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by FormalhautGuessing you're an only child?Quote:
Originally Posted by AlaynaMae:shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
2, a girl and a boy to carry the family name on. If it was 2 girls I would probably adopt a boy.
Carrying on the family name is overrated. I'm giving all my children the surname Bunansa.
Ive already decided I don't want kids. If I had the option, I'd actually get my tubes tied.
I don't know.
Four, all relatively close in ages. Oldest is tops seven years older than the youngest. That means the woman who shall be birthing my brood will have to be quite the machine. And after all that pregnant we'll have four crazy kids running around. Five if including me.
I like a challenge.
I'm not really planning on having any kids, but if I don't then that's a bajillion year combo break. That's a lot of responsibility to put on a man!
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Originally Posted by Formalhaut:shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by AlaynaMaeMaybe. :shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by FormalhautGuessing you're an only child?Quote:
Originally Posted by AlaynaMae:shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
None. smurf kids.
And before it's posted because I know it's incoming: NOT IN THE CHRIS HANSEN WAY.
"smurf kids" he says
I love that I've exposed you all for what you really are.
I want to have 2. I hope one of them is a girl, because if I get to 2 kids and they're both little trouthead boys I will be so mad! :lol:
You could end up w/ 2 little trouthead girls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lockharted
This is sadly so true :(
I'd rather girls than boys, tbh
I like my son :monster:
I'd like one of each, honestly. Not two of either gender.
This would be ideal. No more than two, for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lockharted
Zero really, no babies.
Though I wouldn't mind adopting a orphan or a rescuing a child from a abusive home/ family.
One would be enough for me if I ever have kids. You see, I really love babies, when they're other people's babies. So then I can be like, "Hai! Who's a cute little babeh? You are! Yes you are! Yes you are! Look at these little hands, and feet, and nose! I got your nose! Yes I do! I got your nose! Okay, I'm done. You can have him back now."
I only want one child, and then I can spoil him/her rotten and not feel guilty. If there is one thing I have learned about babies is that they take a troutload of your free time and smell at the most unfortunate times, so with this in mind I would most likely want to adopt a child, as for age I would say 3 or 4 at least.
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I might possibly adopt. But right now, 0.
About 4. I'd like a big enough family.
Me too, but I think for practical reasons it may be 'easier' for me and Sam to raise boys, because we are both men, so we are immediately at a disadvantage if we get a girl, particularly as she grows older.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
I'd have no idea how to raise a girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
"Mom how do I wear makeup?"
"I dunno"
"Mom how do I do nails?"
"I dunno"
"Mom how can you tell how clothes match"
"I dunno"
"Mom are these earrings pretty?"
"I dunno, go ask your father"
These are all examples of things I never asked my mother and figured out for myself from friends, cousins, tv, books, magazines, etc, and as such, we have conflicting and opposing styles and preferences.
See, I'm worried that that's what would end up happening and then my daughter would hate me or something :( :(
I guess my relationship with my mother was a poor example to provide xD
To be fair I can answer these so :grover:Quote:
Originally Posted by PikeI'd have no idea how to raise a girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
"Mom how do I wear makeup?"
"I dunno"
"Mom how do I do nails?"
"I dunno"
"Mom how can you tell how clothes match"
"I dunno"
"Mom are these earrings pretty?"
"I dunno, go ask your father"
Saddly I lack a basement to keep them in. :cry:
I'd prefer a boy since I think I would find him easier to raise and since females get 70% of what males get for the same job, when im old and theyre fed up with me they'll be able to afford a nicer nursing home with hotter nurses
Maybe not. I learned most of what I know (from practical knowledge to the complex) from books, magazines, or media in general. I still love my parents. We agree on very little, but I love them nonetheless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike
One or two.
At the moment, though, the idea of being pregnant and giving birth really doesn't appeal to me, so it'll be a good few years until I think of having any little humans. :jess:
2 to 14
zero
Double post to say: What happened to the last five days?
No days have passed. It's just been one long day.
So this is what it feels like to be Jack Bauer.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlaynaMae
Or Bill Murray!
Parenthood as summarized by Groundhog's Day:
Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
Ralph: That about sums it up for me.
I definitely don't want biological babies under any circumstances unless genetic engineering (a) becomes a thing and (b) becomes affordable, and even then it's conditional on them figuring out the genetic codes that have made me miserable throughout my life and ensuring a way not to pass them on. If that happens I may think of having one biological child, but even still probably not.
I'm not entirely closed off to the idea of adopting, but I also don't think I'd be a very good parent.
yeah, I can agree with that.
Why is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
heeeere we go
I'm guessing he means that they wouldn't have enough experience to deal with particularly "girly" things. They wouldn't have the understanding that a woman would have, the empathy of having gone through the same things.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShinyWhy is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
That's how I take his meaning in any case.
Thing is, no manner of experience prepares one adequately for child rearing. Each child is unique and brings a variety of experiences and trials to the relationship, which can never be predicted beforehand and must be met with ingenuity and grace each and every time. Which is not easy, no matter boy or girl or in between.
Basically this. I mean, I wouldn't know much about make-up, or the menstrual cycle, or other topics. I should just clarify, I wouldn't be against having a girl, not in the slightest. It's just, predicting how things would go, at least in those areas, I wouldn't have much immediate experience - I would naturally pick it up though, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by chionosI'm guessing he means that they wouldn't have enough experience to deal with particularly "girly" things. They wouldn't have the understanding that a woman would have, the empathy of having gone through the same things.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShinyWhy is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
That's how I take his meaning in any case.
From experience of being a female for 23 years, I have barely managed to pick up all that woman stuff, good luck "naturally" picking it up. x}Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
I'd think as a parent Shauna, you would have to pick it up pretty quickly!
Dunno man. My Dad is a great guy, but god damn, he's not the most useful when it comes to dealing with me and my ~woman stuff~. :p He tries his best, and I appreciate his efforts... but yeah.
That is probably entirely related to my mother being on the scene for all that sort of thing for myself and my sister, so perhaps it would be different in a lady-less partnership/household. Who knows. xD
Basically not having experience of things doesn't have too much of an effect on your ability to be a good parent. x} As long as you have basic knowledge!
If it helps, my mum and dad were both pretty useless at this sort of thing. Mum just threw some menstrual products at me at around the right age and told me to ask if I had any questions. I promptly used the internet instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shauna
Got it from neither parent. I had to figure it out from my school's sex ed, friends, and a section I stumbled across at the Barnes & Noble bookstore.
Did you not have any friends, or other female relatives you could talk to?Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss MaeIf it helps, my mum and dad were both pretty useless at this sort of thing. Mum just threw some menstrual products at me at around the right age and told me to ask if I had any questions. I promptly used the internet instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shauna
The internet is a wonderful resource but a trusted relative or friend means alot I'm sure.
I only have two other female relatives, and they are much older and live interstate. My friends were primarily male.
Fair enough! I like to think when I have children, I'd be able to make the experience as un-awkward as can be.
Sorry Formy, I can't imagine the experience being anything but painfully and amazingly awkward for you and even more for your children.Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
You should make a sex-ed video Forms, so we can all know the awkwardness.
I never wore makeup so I would be useless at teaching girls that too. They would say 'Mommy how do I put on lipstick" and I would say "You don't."
My mother, who wanted very little to do with me during my childhood years, was suddenly interested in teaching me about my period when I first got it and also around 12 when she wanted me to start shaving. Coincidentally, these were the exact things I didn't need/want her to be a mother for. I knew what a period was, and I knew how to put on a pad. You just unwrap it and stick it on your panties, not too complicated. Also, I wasn't ready to start shaving at 12, despite her thinking I should be, and I basically just started on my own a year or so later.
My parents gave me no sex ed and neither did my primary school (I switched schools at one point so I think maybe everyone learnt it the next year in my old school and everyone learnt it a year earlier in my new school)
I didn't have internet access
What little I knew I learnt from Encarta encyclopedia. I was almost oblivious going into Highschool
Thanks for the vote of confidence there.Quote:
Originally Posted by chionosSorry Formy, I can't imagine the experience being anything but painfully and amazingly awkward for you and even more for your children.Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
You should make a sex-ed video Forms, so we can all know the awkwardness.
Sucks for you guys for not having a dad that understands your woman trout. Also I learned to put on makeup myself but there are plenty of makeup tutorials on YouTube now. Saying you wouldn't be a good parent to either sex is a poor excuse nowadays unless you're just a horrible person.
Anytime, buddy!Quote:
Originally Posted by FormalhautThanks for the vote of confidence there.Quote:
Originally Posted by chionosSorry Formy, I can't imagine the experience being anything but painfully and amazingly awkward for you and even more for your children.Quote:
Originally Posted by Formalhaut
You should make a sex-ed video Forms, so we can all know the awkwardness.
I will say some of raising a boy has already been awkward. Especially when it comes to penis stuff. I just have no idea
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Originally Posted by Shiny
I'm not expressly stating that I wouldn't be a good parent to a girl, I'm saying that it would take me longer to understand feminine issues and topics.
Did you just do the Metal Gear Solid exclamation point at me? How dare you!
I'm sure you'll make a fine parnt regardless of what you have.
My Dad was really fine for the most part. x}
The kicker was the one day I had horrendous cramps and his comment on the matter was "It really shouldn't hurt at all, there must be something wrong". I was pretty :stare: about that one, but despite his scoff at my physical and emotional pain, he got me painkillers and a hot water bottle and let my lie in bed all day, so in the end he understood exactly what it was I needed at that point in time.
I think 2 is good.
Like, 10 years from now. <_<
Trust me, as a guy who was raised by his mom, I know he'll NEVER want to talk to you about "penis stuff".Quote:
Originally Posted by shion
Guys, just apply makeup to your faces. Then pass on your knowledge to your children.
I know that but when he was a baby there were some awkward diaper change moments that I justQuote:
Originally Posted by Colonel AngusTrust me, as a guy who was raised by his mom, I know he'll NEVER want to talk to you about "penis stuff".Quote:
Originally Posted by shion
had to call a male friend about :-/
Honestly between 2 and 4 will be what I'd like, so I voted 3 ideally. I'll be 28 and my soon to be wife will be 23 in 2 weeks when we get married, so she's still young enough to make this happen I think. haha I guess it all depends on her getting done with college the next 2 years.
Idk. Max 4. Would probably like at least two.
I am not sure how many kids my vagina can poo out before it goes out of service. :(
You would be the best mother in the universe though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Christmas