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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:12:55 PM EDT
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I have two toddlers and I'm not social. Maybe friendly. Maybe.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:13:59 PM EDT
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Modern American life revolves entirely around being completely self absorbed. That is why the socialists hate bible thumpers.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:14:21 PM EDT
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Any specifics?
What state do you live in? General demographic of the inconsiderate and angry parents? Any details at all? |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:14:23 PM EDT
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So we are first time parents with an 18 month old daughter, we're very social and friendly people, I guess the surprised for myself is how rude other parents are with no consideration, always look angry etc., especially at our neighborhood playground. It's an exponential increase that is multipled by number of children and again by age until it peaks. When the oldest one learns how to argue, right around the time the next one down learns how to fight, and you just had a day where they took turn in time out all day long and there were 3 consecutive spankings because fist fights repeatedly break out over who is using which toy, you are bound to be a little grumpy. I love my kids, but some days they are real assholes, and that affects my mood on those days. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:19:47 PM EDT
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It's an exponential increase that is multipled by number of children and again by age until it peaks. When the oldest one learns how to argue, right around the time the next one down learns how to fight, and you just had a day where they took turn in time out all day long and there were 3 consecutive spankings because fist fights repeatedly break out over who is using which toy, you are bound to be a little grumpy. I love my kids, but some days they are real assholes, and that affects my mood on those days.      I know where you are coming from. BTW, it never stops!!!
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:22:05 PM EDT
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I raised three boys!!! I know where you are coming from. BTW, it never stops!!!I'm pretty sure their childhood has effectively taken years of their life. I had two girls....then got a vasectomy. I saw the future of trying again....and it scared me. I only have one bathroom. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:24:41 PM EDT
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I grew up back in the old days and it was different at the playground
all the parents would join hands and sing then they would be blindfolded and play corporate team-building exercises why can't we have that again? answer: communism |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:26:51 PM EDT
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You do realize that ALL toddlers are ASSHOLES, I raised 3 of them and they were all jerks!
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:30:14 PM EDT
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You do realize that ALL toddlers are ASSHOLES, I raised 3 of them and they were all jerks! They use this new skill for some time too, it wears you down. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:30:41 PM EDT
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Needs moar open carry!
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:32:45 PM EDT
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You do realize that ALL toddlers are ASSHOLES, I raised 3 of them and they were all jerks! Kids suck. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:38:11 PM EDT
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You do realize that ALL toddlers are ASSHOLES, I raised 3 of them and they were all jerks! Fast forward to now, my daughter is 22, a dual degree (Biology and Public Health) college grad (academic scholarships, I paid maybe three grand total for books) who starts work full time next week with a company that will provide financial aid for her Masters. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:40:16 PM EDT
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Relax, they are probably just overloaded and stressed out.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:40:48 PM EDT
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I either usually talk to other parents or someone says something to me. Different regions I guess.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:42:30 PM EDT
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So we are first time parents with an 18 month old daughter, we're very social and friendly people, I guess the surprised for myself is how rude other parents are with no consideration, always look angry etc., especially at our neighborhood playground. Move 
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:44:02 PM EDT
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My nephew lives in Mission Viejo CA and knows everyone on the block and several are pretty regular visitors for weekend bbqs. Kids of similar ages are a key to friendships ......and of course guns....best friend is an ICE agent.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:48:28 PM EDT
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You have my condolences.
Ours are just out of that age. Some things I remember - sleepless nights, living in a tiny little family bubble, hormones and related drama, the realization that life has changed completely from what we knew and had planned, wearing food to work, screaming, pee and poop. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:54:44 PM EDT
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If it's their first kid, they're unbearable. Second kid, a little less. By about the third kid, they've started to mellow out.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 2:59:00 PM EDT
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Dont seem to notice that in my area. In fact my neighborhood just opened our new park and all the parents i have met have been pretty nice and fun people to be around.
there is this saying OP, if you only run into assholes all day long then maybe you're the asshole
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:02:25 PM EDT
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So we are first time parents with an 18 month old daughter, we're very social and friendly people, I guess the surprised for myself is how rude other parents are with no consideration, always look angry etc., especially at our neighborhood playground. Could be you named her incorrectly or she doesn't have the right allergies
http://www.cbc.ca/baroness/sketches/season1/baby-names |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:03:29 PM EDT
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Just remember those assholes you are seeing in the park are going through the exact same shit you are, just walk up to them and say....
"Does this shit get any better??????" 
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:11:11 PM EDT
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I'll smile and say high, but quite frankly I don't want to talk to the other parents. "Oh, some weather we're havin huh?" Yeah, I know, I can see the fucking weather, shut the fuck up. Is what I want to say. Small talk is infuriating.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:12:28 PM EDT
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Relax, they are probably just overloaded and stressed out. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:19:16 PM EDT
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I'll smile and say high, but quite frankly I don't want to talk to the other parents. "Oh, some weather we're havin huh?" Yeah, I know, I can see the fucking weather, shut the fuck up. Is what I want to say. Small talk is infuriating. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:30:50 PM EDT
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We have 2y/o twin boys who fulfill every negative toddler stereotype there is. I work rotating shifts as does my wife. I've easily lost a decade off of my life, so far. Most days I'd carpet bomb the damn playground just to make sure there was noone else to bother us, if it was an option.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:33:40 PM EDT
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Our area is loaded with friendly MILF's you should move to texas
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:35:46 PM EDT
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So we are first time parents with an 18 month old daughter, we're very social and friendly people, I guess the surprised for myself is how rude other parents are with no consideration, always look angry etc., especially at our neighborhood playground. Maybe it's because your wearing your pajamas at 3pm, chain smoking, your Yukon's stereo is blasting ghetto music 20' away and your pitbull is going apeshit trying to eat the running kids. That's why I'm an asshole to people at the park anyway. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 3:40:39 PM EDT
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I'll smile and say high, but quite frankly I don't want to talk to the other parents. "Oh, some weather we're havin huh?" Yeah, I know, I can see the fucking weather, shut the fuck up. Is what I want to say. Small talk is infuriating. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:24:05 PM EDT
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My kids are 9 and 11, yet I still have the Bitchy Resting Face when I am out in public with them because I wonder what they will break next. Wonderful kids but very curious and they love to explore. So they touch and examine EVERYTHING.
It is like taking a pair of talking raccoons with me everywhere I go. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:29:44 PM EDT
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What do you consider "toddler"? 18 months old is still generally friendly, agreeable, and sweet. 2.5+ starts turning into a colossal pain in the ass that makes EVERYTHING you try to do also a colossal pain in the ass, resulting in a generally pissy attitude on the part of the parents.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:36:48 PM EDT
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My kids are 9 and 11, yet I still have the Bitchy Resting Face when I am out in public with them because I wonder what they will break next. Wonderful kids but very curious and they love to explore. So they touch and examine EVERYTHING. It is like taking a pair of talking raccoons with me everywhere I go. I came back out to the kitchen and caught the kids with looks on their faces like when you shine a light at a racoon in the garbage. They must have thought I was going to be in the bathroom for about 10 minutes for my standard morning constitutional. The 4 year old was standing on the counter, with a cupboard open trying to find some fruit snacks. 18 month old had an entire bag of tortilla chips that her sister had tossed to her, and was giving orders for more snacks from the cupboard. Once their raccoon faces broke they scrambled, the little one did a loop back through to the living room, on a bee-line for the toy room, and the big one had settled on a last second box of crackers, jumped down and was going for rushing yards with it under her arm like Emmit Smith, trying to get to the stairs so she could get up in her room. I used to laugh about shit like this when I would see it on TV, then I started living it. Funny in hindsight, but seeing the 4 year old nearly standing on the fridge while the little one is acting as ground foreman on this search and rescue project is basically my life now. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:38:13 PM EDT
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OP it seems that more people than not are selfish assholes these days, though that fluctuates depending on where one lives. I am also friendly and sociable. But that doesn't it will be well received, oh well, some people are friendly and some are not.
Nothing new in the world. Btw, some in here seem to have missed the fact that the character of one's child is a direct reflection of one's parenting. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:40:15 PM EDT
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Your children are the direct reflection of your parenting. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:43:48 PM EDT
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I just dragged my three year old out of Target today because he wanted to play with wall clocks for like fifteen minutes, then when I told him it was time to go, he threw himself on the ground and proceeded to start swinging at me when I stood him up. I saw soccer moms giving me shitty looks, and I didn't give a fuck.
OTOH playgrounds are usually great, but there are some parents who are just assholes who never wanted to have kids in the first place. My wife once had another mom walk up to her and rip her daughter away from our son, as the two kids were sharing a seat and calmly playing with the librarys kids computers. The mom (who we see around often at childrens functions) glared at my wife and said "MY children don't do SCREENS" Bitch drives a Prius with Bernie stickers and always talks about going to Hawaii every other week. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:44:16 PM EDT
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Your children are the direct reflection of your parenting. Then I had another one. We did everything nearly the same with both of them. Night and day differences between them. The little one figured out how to lay on the ground and throw a tantrum, the big one never did that once. The little one has no problem at all with pushing another kid out of the way, the big one at the same age would have gone around in such a wide circle she might actually exit the room to do it. Their complete personality differences were apparent from almost day one, and just have become more apparent each month since. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:47:19 PM EDT
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So we are first time parents with an 18 month old daughter, we're very social and friendly people, I guess the surprised for myself is how rude other parents are with no consideration, always look angry etc., especially at our neighborhood playground. I am amazed at how rude and inconsiderate most Gen x and millennial age child generators (as opposed to being [parents]) are when out in public. They sit there with their faces buried in electronics updating their bowel movement status, paying no attention to their spawn running around SCREAMING, fighting, pissing other patrons off to no end. It is easy to see how the "special snowflake" generation came to be. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:48:59 PM EDT
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Too many people think their children are the second coming of Christ!
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:56:47 PM EDT
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It's an exponential increase that is multipled by number of children and again by age until it peaks. When the oldest one learns how to argue, right around the time the next one down learns how to fight, and you just had a day where they took turn in time out all day long and there were 3 consecutive spankings because fist fights repeatedly break out over who is using which toy, you are bound to be a little grumpy. I love my kids, but some days they are real assholes, and that affects my mood on those days. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 5:09:16 PM EDT
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Often times they think the world revolves around their children.
When their child is being a screamy little shit, they think it's cute, and therefore everyone else should too. 
(I just want to point out, that this is not my view of parents in general. Good parents never act like this, and control their kids when they act out.) |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 5:09:55 PM EDT
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I just dragged my three year old out of Target today because he wanted to play with wall clocks for like fifteen minutes, then when I told him it was time to go, he threw himself on the ground and proceeded to start swinging at me when I stood him up. I saw soccer moms giving me shitty looks, and I didn't give a fuck. . He had a total fucking melt down one time in Walmart. We went with my sister because I needed to grab some things and she was driving that way (heading to Walmart is like a pilgrimage out here) The kids were riding the little kid bikes in the isle and it was time to get going. I said to mine "Come on, it's time to park it so we can go pay for our stuff". She hopped off and walked over. My nephew just kept riding, his mom asked him again to get off and he ignored her, so she went and got him off and put the bike back. Instant melt down, laying on the ground, taking off his shoes, rolling around like a coyote caught in a foot trap. My daughter looked up at me and said "Does he need to go the doctor? Is he going to be okay?" It was pretty hilarious because it wasn't my kid doing it, little shit head. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 5:50:32 PM EDT
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As a parent of 3 and 4 year olds, I have to watch them like a hawk. They will run off or find something to fuck up. Other parents may be nice or assholes but I can't talk.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 5:56:50 PM EDT
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Wait till you see parents of ball players.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 6:04:00 PM EDT
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If everyone makes it back alive its a successful trip to the playground
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Posted: 3/25/2017 6:09:16 PM EDT
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I raised three boys!!! I know where you are coming from. BTW, it never stops!!!Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It's an exponential increase that is multipled by number of children and again by age until it peaks. When the oldest one learns how to argue, right around the time the next one down learns how to fight, and you just had a day where they took turn in time out all day long and there were 3 consecutive spankings because fist fights repeatedly break out over who is using which toy, you are bound to be a little grumpy. I love my kids, but some days they are real assholes, and that affects my mood on those days. I know where you are coming from. BTW, it never stops!!! |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 6:33:39 PM EDT
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I was in the bathroom two days ago, for like 3 minutes. I came back out to the kitchen and caught the kids with looks on their faces like when you shine a light at a racoon in the garbage. They must have thought I was going to be in the bathroom for about 10 minutes for my standard morning constitutional. The 4 year old was standing on the counter, with a cupboard open trying to find some fruit snacks. 18 month old had an entire bag of tortilla chips that her sister had tossed to her, and was giving orders for more snacks from the cupboard. Once their raccoon faces broke they scrambled, the little one did a loop back through to the living room, on a bee-line for the toy room, and the big one had settled on a last second box of crackers, jumped down and was going for rushing yards with it under her arm like Emmit Smith, trying to get to the stairs so she could get up in her room. I used to laugh about shit like this when I would see it on TV, then I started living it. Funny in hindsight, but seeing the 4 year old nearly standing on the fridge while the little one is acting as ground foreman on this search and rescue project is basically my life now. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My kids are 9 and 11, yet I still have the Bitchy Resting Face when I am out in public with them because I wonder what they will break next. Wonderful kids but very curious and they love to explore. So they touch and examine EVERYTHING. It is like taking a pair of talking raccoons with me everywhere I go. I came back out to the kitchen and caught the kids with looks on their faces like when you shine a light at a racoon in the garbage. They must have thought I was going to be in the bathroom for about 10 minutes for my standard morning constitutional. The 4 year old was standing on the counter, with a cupboard open trying to find some fruit snacks. 18 month old had an entire bag of tortilla chips that her sister had tossed to her, and was giving orders for more snacks from the cupboard. Once their raccoon faces broke they scrambled, the little one did a loop back through to the living room, on a bee-line for the toy room, and the big one had settled on a last second box of crackers, jumped down and was going for rushing yards with it under her arm like Emmit Smith, trying to get to the stairs so she could get up in her room. I used to laugh about shit like this when I would see it on TV, then I started living it. Funny in hindsight, but seeing the 4 year old nearly standing on the fridge while the little one is acting as ground foreman on this search and rescue project is basically my life now. 
You never know. My 3 y/o son got up on one of the little two step stepladders I had set out for decorating the Christmas tree. He immediately grabbed the top rail and tried to summersault off of it. He landed in the Christmas tree which bent it all up and knocked ornaments flying, busted his nose big time and split his lip. When I asked him what he was doing he said that he thought doing a flip would be fun. 
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Posted: 3/25/2017 6:37:53 PM EDT
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It's an exponential increase that is multipled by number of children and again by age until it peaks. When the oldest one learns how to argue, right around the time the next one down learns how to fight, and you just had a day where they took turn in time out all day long and there were 3 consecutive spankings because fist fights repeatedly break out over who is using which toy, you are bound to be a little grumpy. I love my kids, but some days they are real assholes, and that affects my mood on those days. 4.5yr old 2yr old 6m old |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 6:40:26 PM EDT
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Wait till you see parents of ball players. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 6:48:20 PM EDT
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90% of our friends have children the same age. Two reasons,
1) it makes it easier to hang out all together 2) kids are like dogs; people like to stop and talk to you about them |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 6:53:02 PM EDT
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It's an exponential increase that is multipled by number of children and again by age until it peaks. When the oldest one learns how to argue, right around the time the next one down learns how to fight, and you just had a day where they took turn in time out all day long and there were 3 consecutive spankings because fist fights repeatedly break out over who is using which toy, you are bound to be a little grumpy. I love my kids, but some days they are real assholes, and that affects my mood on those days. Fuck socializing, fuck talking, and fuck the world! AND GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WORKSHOP!!!! I remember a lot of days like that. It's much better now with the oldest two moved out and just one 13 year old to deal with... I'm almost a pleasant human being to be around.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 6:54:22 PM EDT
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Just remember those assholes you are seeing in the park are going through the exact same shit you are, just walk up to them and say.... "Does this shit get any better??????" |
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