quote:Originally posted by ralph: But 16 and can't do laundry? My seven year old can do laundry!
I imagine he can do laundry. But we tend to do combined washes, you know. If we did a separate load for each person the machine would be going 24/7, instead of merely 12/7 as it is now.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: I imagine he can do laundry. But we tend to do combined washes, you know. If we did a separate load for each person the machine would be going 24/7, instead of merely 12/7 as it is now.
I understand that. But does he do a combined load? Is he capable? Does he help out at all around the house? I'm deeply concerned about him now...
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Can someone level with me and tell the truth here: is being a parent a fucking nightmare?
I'll level with you..
It's not a fucking nightmare it's just different to anything you've ever done before. I guess some people hate it, some people love it. I loved it, I love it and can't wait to do it again.
It's easy at the start, y'know working from home, looking after the baby and that, all they do is sleep and eat, great, plenty of time for you..
A toddler (2.5) like Beckett is now, not so much fun as they are demanding, they want your attention so there's less free time, but they're learning and are like little information sponges so great fun.
Children, well you don't see them. Summer is 10 and all she really wants to do is sit on MSN talking to her school friends, watch TV and play games on her PC (If she's not playing outside or riding her bike) so I have plenty of time for me again..
Kids rock.
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I went to a wanky gastropub for brunch last sunday at about 12 - before the sunday roast rush, and it was packed with families with kids and 3 wheeled off road buggies (lol - one dad got pissed off with his kid and strapped it into the buggy, then pushed the buggy against the wall. Kid didn't like that. Quality parenting)...anyway there was also a blind kid. Dont know how old, about 2ft tall, and he had a little miniature white stick!
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: TMO's Agony Aunts will no doubt be fascinated to hear that Putney Bloke has got back in touch and has been emailing me very chatty missives, and put me in touch of one of the recruitment consultants. Is there some kind of guidebook available for the workings of the male mind?
Oh, I can never resist a bit of Auntying. Sadly, there is no guidebook for the workings of the male mind - I wish there was. Keep up the chatty missives, don't be the one who suggests meeting up for a drink of whatever, play it cool. Leave him to make the effort (it's the least he can do, seeing how he messed you about). This approach will also allow you to gauge the situation accurately (is he just being friendly or does he want to see you again?) without putting your foot in it.
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Is there some kind of guidebook available for the workings of the male mind?
Yes. It was originally written by Jerry Hall's mother, then improved upon further by Jerry herself:
quote:My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.
It doesn't seem quite perfect yet though. I'm quite partial to a maid in the bedroom myself, for example. But they're roughly on the right track anyway.
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I'm not really worried about becoming a father. If I ever do. I just wanted to grease the banter sled.
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I'm shit scared of ever being a mother. I'd be arrested by social services after three days. I can't decide whether you're all just different, or more courageous or more stupid than I am. It's probably just the former.
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I see-saw about being a father. Like, some days I think I'm not that fussed, and then other days it's like 'Fuck, I should get a kid before it's too late'. I don't know. It'd be easier if I found out I was sterile - remove the agony of choice.
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quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: 'Fuck, I should get a kid before it's too late'
Sounds like you've been reading too much Bridget Jones, or handbag.com. Remember Nathan - as a man you can make babies until you're like ninety or whatever (assuming you're not a Jaffa). Look at that chap who was married to Anna Nicole Smith. That whole situation turned out pretty well...
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quote:Originally posted by mart: In Gree's defence she takes care of most of the other domestic stuff - which works well because I love cooking, and she hates it. So it makes sense. And I'm certainly no hero. Just kitchen-savvy, I suppose.
ooo i sounded like a right lazy cow before you wrote this "i had better say something nice in case my wife is reading" post
you do sound a bit like captian kitchen but we do appreciate it. really. and the cape is awfully cute.
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: If you want to be a hands on, footy playing, run about, knock about cool dad it's probably better to be early 30's than earky 40's..
Darryn's right. I get chest pains from two minutes of doing the hokey-cokey so Christ knows what state I'd have been in had I left it any later.
quote:Originally posted by ben: [Darryn's right. I get chest pains from two minutes of doing the hokey-cokey so Christ knows what state I'd have been in had I left it any later.
Aren't you like... only just 30?
I've never understood your obsession with growing old. You've been referring to yourself as 'early middleaged' for years, and keep making out that you're decrepit, past it, etc. Is it a reaction against people who make embarrassing attempts cling to their youth almost into their forties, and against a media which often presents youth as the only virtue worth having or is it just that you see a kind of worldly dignity in old age that you aspire to?
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I don't know, Nathan - perhaps I'm just trying to be more like my hero, Dang 'Will you still feed me when I'm '65, who has single handedly made being an old, moaning old person seem somehow cool again.
Also - I have to face facts: I'm 33 in a couple of months. I was 26 when I begin posting on TMO. I was a young man then. I am a different man now - and the difference, I'm afraid, is age. I'm an old man now. Old. Like Dang. An old man.
It isn't so bad. Anyway, you'll be joining us soon enough.
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I'm not sure about the no cool Dads thing. Apart from my general issues with the term 'cool' I guess it depends on who's doing the judging and by what criteria you'd define cool dadness.
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