I agree with you poly – Some right wee shites out there – always getting what they want by having tantrums and the like or a few years later on being totally ignored.

I think if you have kids you should bring them up with an eye out for ‘will this behaviour be cute when they get older?’ if not dont indulge it ever. I have a kid and thats how they are being brought up. Mind you my soap box includes if you cant train a dog dont have bleeding kids :you_crazy:

for a lot of folks kids seem to stop being special when they start answering back and/or going to school – i e when their behaviour is no longer excusable under the ‘they dont know any better’ or the next wee baby has come along… Its unfair to suddenly move the goalposts like that. What excites some adults is the utterly dependent unconditional love you get from a baby/toddler – when they have their own opinions they are old news. :rant: IMO these are adults who have not grown up yet and its perpetrates an endless cycle of this treatment of kids

I thought the thread said “overeating babies” – and though that political corectness/laws aside, that was very good advice, you shouldn’t eat too many they will be fattening and can carry all manner of nasty diseases if not cooked properly :laugh_at:

seriously though I think its also unfair on the babies and other creatures.

It does seem to be a female thing, (often extending to small dogs etc), and ladies worldwide seem to have a practice of scooping up a baby/dog which is happily playing and minding its own business, bundling it into a motor car and taking it to work with them to show off to people the the office.

The women all gawp at the creature and poke and prod it, invariably the baby starts crying or the small dog runs away and hides. I don’t blame them either, I would do the same if paraded before a bunch of strangers and thus treated.

At one workplace I ended up locating and rescuing the small lapdog before it totally freaked and bolted out the fire exit and ended up falling down the stairwell or a service riser or being locked in a plant room (it was cowering behind a big network printer in the corner) as I was the only one slim and dextrous enough to fit in there, and the dog saw me as less of a threat than the elderly accountants.

I think most babies are ugly, other then the ones on youtube with the stupid faces that make you laugh .. I guess the’re kinda cute.

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@General Lighting 456245 wrote:

they’re all too busy looking after their babies to post :laugh_at:

almost certainly true :laugh_at:

I definitely know at least 4 people who stopped using this forum and various others because of parenthood.

Small children aged 0-5 need a lot of looking after. From 5-18 there is all the effort and expense involved in putting them through compulsory education. There may only be a limited number of computers in the house and the kid(s) using them for schoolwork (even if you are in your 20s now your education would not be as high tech as today), and by the time they are done with it parents probably want to go to bed for work the next day.

From 18-25 young people often are in higher education, and with the economic depression there is now no guarantee a child will not remain economically dependent to some extent on their parents (especially being able to leave the family home) until their 30s or even beyond. its a big long term commitment and resource-intensive hedonism goes out of the window, especially in the early years, and often by the time a kid is at school age the parents aren’t really interested in the dance music scene other than maybe listening to a few CD’s or downloading mixes

There are also obvious reasons why even liberal parents aren’t going to openly read this forum with their school age kids watching.

BrainDead Baby Scene – YouTube