The official Childfree on MN bingo card

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We have 24 squares to fill. What lines get trotted out on every thread that discusses the child free?

My suggestions:

1. You'll need my children to be your carers when you're old
2. Only parents understand real love
3. Childfree people shouldn't take annual leave in school holidays

Glorious floof! Are they Norwegian Forest Cats?

You can never have enough capybaras on a thread. No meter reading from me though... 😀

There’s a distinct lack of baby alpacas on the thread.

I would love a floofy long haired cat but I cba with grooming so short hair only in my house.

👋👋👋

Same, and my cats are indoor-only in a tiny unit, and they generate quite enough fur as it is! I'm half expecting the management to declare my sheets and bedspread are verboten in the laundry because they fall into the "pet bedding" category. 😸😸

They are indeed! I didn’t realise they live in Finland too.

Glorious Generally Nordic Forest Cats!

Flares will always be stylish! ❤️

Baby pine marten!

They are Siberians. Similar to Norwegians but they tend to have rounder faces. Here’s mine

What a regal ofurlord ...

I humbly pledge allegiance.

All hail the king of floofs!

Can I include one of my chickens to the pet adoration thread?

Quite.

@Catsmere and @fitzwilliamdarcy, she’s sometimes regal. Not always.

? Fair enough questions no?

Mumsnet has gone beyond being a parenting site.

Ignore my above posts. I just found how to hide this topic so it doesn’t show up in active.

I got here via property topic, non mum😁

I think MNHQ could do the thingy that this topic doesn't show in active and trending like some others do.

Oh my god she's an Ikea cat! 😆

My aunt told me that there was no point in me training to become an educational psychologist if I didn’t have children because how was I supposed to help them or know what to do? She kindly put his comment in a Facebook post on my wall…

My childfree sister has had this, and variations thereof, about her career as a CP social worker.

I have two grown up children, both of whom have decided not to have children and one of my daughter's friends recently told her that she wasn't a real woman because she didn't want kids. Even if she did, she can't have them without a lot of intervention due to the effects of the eating disorder she has battled for a decade. That comment caused a massive wobble which she's not quite over yet.

Arseholes.

Does anyone tell men that they are not real men for not wanting kids?

No but I chatted with DH and he had pressure on him from family and comments from few friends too about how he should have kids. Which quite surprised me as none commented to me....