Getting bored with MumsNetters who ...

[Mulanmum]

Leave their 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 kids to cuddle each other and play harmoniously whilst they come onto this topic to tell us that only children are:

spoiled/spoilt
likely to prefer their chaotic household to the sad and lonely bleakhouse inhabited by an only child
will be lost and lonely without the comradeship of sibs when parents die

and that they have never met an adult who enjoyed being an only child

and on and on and on!

It isn't helpful for those who, unlike me, would have liked to have more children.

I don't go sticking my nose into the Larger Families topics posting tactless and unhelpful comments about children I know who LOATHE being one of TOO many or adults who DETEST their brothers/sisters.

Supportive and constructive posts are welcome from multi-kid mums but if you can't manage that then please get back to your kids and stop little Jasper hammering on little Jocasta's head.

Thank you

[blackrock]

I have one child.

I have friends with large extended families who are only children, and very happy, and friends who were only children, who had a lot of children around them as they grew up, who were also very happy.

I would love another child, but it is becoming less and less likely and just not happening.

I am working hard at making sure my child has the opportunity to mix with friends as much as I can. I have a small extended family, so cannot surround him with people in this way and am relying on close friends and their children.

So far, so good with own child, but i guess we will just have to see what the future holds. I hope DC enjoys his childhood.

I have a sister, and we are not close...and have never really been close, despite a two year gap between us. I think she would've preferred to have been an only!

I think you can argue this one until you are blue in the face. Diff strokes for diff folks.

[kittywise]

3 posts deleted? Really? Ace! I'll have to go and check.

As I said, if I'm bored.

[kittywise]

MM no not obsessed, horrified by the person you portray here. I can only hope that this is a posting persona.

[poshsinglemum]

I have a sister but I feel like an only child. We are very distant. Only just getting the comradeship thing at 30 yrs old! Each to their own imo. I can't see me having a sibling for dd as am a single mum so gutted but at the same time OVERJOYED to have a child when so many couples have none as they can't concieve.

[poshsinglemum]

I worry about my dd who is likely not only to be a single child but also an only child of a single mum! According to statistics her future is bleak but I think we all know that stats are utter BOLLOCKS!

[poshsinglemum]

I worry about my dd who is likely not only to be a single child but also an only child of a single mum! According to statistics her future is bleak but I think we all know that stats are utter BOLLOCKS!

[Portofino]

Sorry, I never read all the thread, but i NEVER heard anyone on MN express any of these sentiments EVER.

I have an ONLY. She IS spolit. But she is a child. She does things that other children do. She makes things up. She sulks, She is difficult in shops. She is lovely and funny.

She plays by herself, or i have made efforts to do things with other families.