Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.
If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.
I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
Every time you cuddle with your children, you're likely to be driving down your testosterone.
If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.
Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.
Having a baby will put your marriage through the ringer, and if you're lucky, you'll come out the other end stronger for it.
