Things only people without kids would say...

[dodi1978]

For example: wouldn't it be great if he ate some vegetables? (About DS, 2.5)?

Hollow laughter.

magrats - I never said anyone couldn't talk about their kids! I would never dream of suggesting people go to another forum or hide anything. It's a site with free access for all. Please point out where I said (ever) that it was not allowed? Just offering another perspective- I believe I am allowed to? And I've said please to carry on. I don't need you to give me suggestions on "hiding" the thread etc. I am able to do that if I want to without your direction.

howcan thanks for your comment but really no need to apologise at all. And of course no need to feel guilty at all. Kids are bloody hard work. I didn't plan to comment further on this thread but didn't want to appear pushed off, if you see what I mean.

Why can't he watch predator ? My db clearly puzzled that I wouldn't allow ds1 (6) to watch

I know you are Antique and I didn't mean to offend. It just seemed like you were upset. My apologies if I've misinterpreted.

It's not until you have a non sleeper ( no 3 for me - didn't sleep all night until 2 1/2 years old and I still had two other children to look after and a job to go to ) that you totally get why sleep deprivation is used as a torture technique .

why won't your kids sleep in late? when we were small we slept till 9 every day

I've just seen this written on another thread, its a classic!

"Grandparents are the usual first port of call for this sort of thing."

yes, like we all have fit willing alive grandparents just around the corner when they are needed

I'd never let DCs sleep in our bed.

Thing is ssd, there's no reason to suppose that the person who wrote that has no children.

It's more an example of "things people say when they are not good at imagining any life other than their own".

true enough trills!

"I spent £18,000 on IVF and all I have to show for it is a miscarriage at 10 weeks"

"I can't come out tonight because I have to be home to inject at 9pm"

"I'm sorry I didn't come to the party after baby's christening, but I'm still recovering physically and emotionally from having my dead baby surgically removed from my body and I'm not ready to be around babies and small children just yet'

'Will I ever have a family of my own? I don't know if it will ever happen for us'

These are lots of the things my friends and I who don't have kids say

Obviously we often hear how LUCKY we are not to have kids, hahaha!

Yeah. We feel so very very lucky that we're not able to join your special club no matter how hard we try.

We were invied to a summer bbq last year. "put dc in their buggy, they'll sleep and you can enjoy the party". Dd refuses to sleep in the buggy or stay in the buggy for more than half an hour.
Michael McIntyre does a great skit about how things change when you have children. It's in youtube called 'people with no kids don't know'

They only crap in their nappies... right?

"It's a Bank Holiday: why are they up at this time? Surely they know?"

Said SIL when we went on holiday together when my dc were four and one.

"I'm sorry I didn't come to the party after baby's christening, but I'm still recovering physically and emotionally from having my dead baby surgically removed from my body and I'm not ready to be around babies and small children just yet'

I think that does make you a parent, Banana. Sorry for your loss

"Life without kids is a life unworthy of living."

These are the common words I hear from people who were not blessed to have kids.

Seriously, is there no thread that doesn't have someone come in and start pissing all over it? Why, just why??

I'm very sorry for your loss bananafish, but there really isn't any need to post in the way that you did. This thread is clearly lighthearted and in no way meant to be a dig at people who don't yet have children.

Hi Bananafish

I'm really sorry for your loss.

I have to say that this thread could have been worded a little more sensitively, it could be interpreted as having a dig at people who don't yet have children (or may never have children). I am a mother and can relate to some of these comments - I'm really looking forward to soft play, play doh etc. BUT...I struggled to have my children and when I have these types of thoughts I thank my lucky stars that I am sat in soft play, I didn't care about getting up in the night. I felt awful due to disrupted sleep and yes things are different (and sometimes very hard) after having children but none of this compares to the awfulness and devastation that is Infertility. True some women choose not to have children but there are an awful lot of women who are childless not by choice and they would give everything to have these angsts. I also miscarried a child late on in pregnancy and should by now be breastfeeding through the night etc experiencing sleepless nights etc. I think it is right that with a title thread such as this that comments regarding what all people without children might say is only fair....Hope you are O.K Bananafish.

monkeytree that is a lovely post

...unlike some of the others above pretty much stating 'stop being a killjoy and let us have fun mocking your type'.

It's always hard to see these type of thread titles when you're very much childless and not childfree.

I don't think anyone is mocking people who have suffered miscarriage or still birth or infertility though, are they?

Yes, but many ladies who are childless not by choice are likely to have faced infertility, miscarriage stillbirth or circumstances (and there are many) that have not enabled them to have children.

There does seem something mocking and 'them and us' about this thread.

Other things that only people without kids would say

"What am I going to do on Mothers Day?" (When I am consumed by an unbearable sadness because I don't have my longed for child to call me mum)
"How shall we celebrate Christmas this year?" (When I dont have my longed for family)
"How can that parent verbally (or physically) abuse that child?" (When I long to hold my own in my arms and feel the wave of unconditional love)

With a thread title such as this the reader must be open to all things only people without kids would say. ....

If people have issues to do with raising their chidren - eating/sleeping issues etc. it can be raised on one of the forums (I have done this myself) without relating it to people without children.

I have nothing further to say apart from Bananafish, I hope you surviving the minutes, hours and days x

I was going to say that monkey; lots of childless people are childless due to circumstance, so yes, you are mocking them.

Sorry my recurrent miscarriages and infertility means I shouldn't join in my friends' conversations (which 90% revolve around children) for fear of being judged and mocked...

I'm dipping out too - I really do hate these mocking threads.