Comments on: People Need to Stop Having Children-Part 2

By: Melanie ("The Princess")

Melanie ("The Princess") — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:04:22 +0000

I agree, Geoff. I learned not to do stupid shit on my bike when I scraped my knees. If my kid is running around like a madman and it’s wide open and the worst that will happen is he’ll trip and get a bruise or a scrape, I’ll let it happen. If he’s running around like a madman in a crowded place, or with, I don’t know, SCISSORS, and he’ll hurt himself badly, or hurt someone else, it’s time to intervene.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:31:40 +0000

Thanks for the advice, my husband & I will soon be parents. I’m hoping we’ll be alot better than some of the crazies out there.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:41:32 +0000

@ Melanie: Too true. You actually do your kids a disservice if you constantly shield them from all consequences.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:56:11 +0000

I agree.

My kid’s a handful, but he’s watched. All the time. I try to make sure he usually avoids getting hurt, and I always make sure he isn’t disrupting other people when we are out.

Sometimes, though, when he’s doing stuipd shit, and won’t listen when I tell him to stop, I let him get hurt. Never anything dangerous, of course, but sometimes they just need to learn by doing.

By: Alissa (TANcast's #1 Female Fan)

Alissa (TANcast's #1 Female Fan) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:43:27 +0000

Well, you know where I work. I save the lives of children on a fairly daily basis while their parents laugh at how “cute” their kids are. -_-

By: Mike (TANcast's #1 Fan)

Mike (TANcast's #1 Fan) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:25:50 +0000

I hate to rain all over your anti-stereotyping parade, Tim, but the black kids here are the worst behaved. Along with the Mexican kids. I’ve had to address both groups of children for things like…. throwing things at my window (while their parents watched them do it). The white kids on the other hand… not so much of an issue. Granted, it’s probably just those two families that are fucked up (that’s right… there’s only one black and one Mexican family in my apartment complex). Okay, I don’t hate to rain on your anti-stereotyping parade. That was actually the whole point of this paragraph. ON TO PARAGRAPH TWO!

As for people need to stop having children… I fully intend to have children one day. However, I have the maturity (have since I was about ten, actually) to set aside the pressing issues of what kind of chicken I want, to make sure the kids around me don’t like… die or get hurt or anything. I actually lost many glasses of orange soda to children (okay, one child… my favorite baby cousin. Yes, I have a favorite, DEAL WITH IT!) climbing on furniture… then jumping, and me dropping said soda to catch them before they kill themselves. At three, I knew you didn’t let kid’s climb on furniture! Granted, I climbed on furniture…. but I was always the “do as I say, not as I do” type. This comment had a point…. oh yeah! People don’t need to stop having children, only stupid and/or irresponsible people do.
I know it was a rather long winded way of saying that, but… oh well! lol

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:21:25 +0000

I agree, some parents suck. Today we saw a mom paying absolutely no attention whatsoever to one of her small children navigating a parking lot (specifically, the kid opened the passenger side door just as I was about to park in the space next to them, nearly crushing the kid, but luckily I was paying more attention than the parent).

HOWEVER, it’s easy to criticize until you become a parent yourself. Our child isn’t even walking yet, but I can already understand the mindset exhibited by the less responsible parents out there. I certainly hope and will try extremely hard to never be that inattentive, but you’d be surprised what can happen even when you think you’ve got the situation covered. We’ve already learned that lesson.