Well, I'd certainly like to think I'm special, and not in a short-bus kind of way. I don't have a Mini or a dog. I do vote, though. Two out of three ain't bad, Tara. Don't worry about being more considerate to me or other childless/empty nest/childfree folk; I'd hate to make you take extra steps on our part. We're used to your selfish behavior and constant justifications that your needs - excuse me, your CHILD's needs - take precedence over all.
The point is well taken that many of us parents need to be more considerate to people without children, especially those who read those special childfree blogs and probably have a "I Have a Dog and I Vote" bumper sticker on their Mini.
We will survive. Our hearts will go on. We'll be the considerate ones who straighten out and put away the sugar packets you let your little dears scatter while they're speaking in their cute little voices. Someone has to be the adult, and as you and too many parents like you are busy being childish along with your children (at least they have an excuse; what's yours?) it will fall to those without children - as is so often the case - to maintain some level of functioning adulthood.
Addendum: I saw a comment for the SFGate blog post in which someone wondered why childfree people are reading the SFGate's baby blog. I read it because my stats tracker showed the link to the post and the traffic it was driving to my site. One could just as easily ask why a baby blogger, or any parent, reads childfree sites. I think it's human nature to be curious about the "other side."
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Wow. Full of yourself much?
Who else should I be full of? If I were full of someone else, that might require an exorcist, or perhaps an NC-17 rating.
You didn't need to submit your comment more than once, by the way. Your first version, posted as Anonymous, would have gone through, as would the second one. I work for a living and don't have time to sit all day monitoring comments, so it may take a few hours before I can approve the comments to show up.
How dare you not agree that everything a child does is awe inspiring and should be worshipped!
(sarcasm off)
Seriously, what a bunch of ill behaved and willfully ignorant rubes some pare-I mean breeders are. Actual parents do just that, parent their children. Breeders just have them and expect the rest of the world to put up with them.
From what I've read of the comments, the worst thing for some of these breeders is to have someone glare at their children as they tear a 4 star restaurant apart. Gee, you think that maybe, just maybe, when someone is paying an assload of money for a nice dinner, they might want a little peace and quiet and that...just maybe, those people might be PARENTS who HIRED A BABYSITTER and LEFT THE KIDS AT HOME? And you know what, if it's too expensive to hire a babysitter and eat in a 4 star restaurant, maybe you have to do what the rest of us do when we can't afford fancy things...GO WITHOUT.
They read our blogs, we read theirs. Everyone just shut the hell up and play nicely now.
Common courtesy is what is missing in this world and it would do the parent and childfree population good to see that. I am CF and not the rabid kid hater. I do LOATHE badly behaved kids in public just as I loathe badly behaved adults.
Common sense would not hurt either. Don't like kids? Don't go to Chuck E Cheese. Haven't managed to teach your child how to use an indoor voice? Don't go to a fancy restaurant. Think people.
Someone said it in the comments there...SOME Cf-ers need to be more patient and MOST parents need to realize that no one care about their kids as much as they do.
CFT, you have just spoken so much common sense that I doubt the people who need to read it most - parent and CF alike - will grasp or appreciate it.
How about we all bring back some common courtesy on ALL sides of the fences we put up? Would that hurt us so much, compromise our positions so much?
This may warrant its own post.
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