No Children

Whatever. You guys have all this extra money for fancy cars and fancy adventures. I have enough extra money for Charles Shaw wine to help me cope with a toddler who doesn't like wearing clothes and has a MONUMENTAL tantrum.

 

1) That's actually a horrible (not really) San Fran Giants outfit that her surrogate grandparents bought her
2) My daughter shall not be a Duck, a Steeler, a Thundering Herd, a Bobcat, a Cardinal, a Yankee, a Cowboy, a Patriot......or fan of any other terrible, awful team.

 

going back to the oopening post, i've been married but have no children

i left my husband because he wanted children. no pressure was applied by him to have children - he just didn't believe me when we discussed children before and during our marriage

i love kids & kids always come to me but that doesn't mean i want my own. never have, never will because financially, it's hard enough looking after myself & kids know when they're not wanted

 

ROLL TIDE!

/mandatory

 

Her aunt went to Alabama........

 

Really glad I got my period last night, just saying.

17 Confessions From Women Who Don't Want Kids

Personally, I feel no shame.

 

Not the same thing at all. At all. When you decide to walk away from teaching, whether it's five years or retirement, you will be done. You never walk away from being a parent. And you will never have the same attachment. Looking after 60 kids a few hours a day for half of a year has no comparison to actually raising a child from birth. There is a huge difference between marking a kid absent because they are sick and staying up with them half the night because they are throwing up.

 

According to government statistics, child support payments and daytime talk shows, you're speaking philosophically and not literally.

 

My kiddo says that same thing.
She has said that if she marries a woman who wants to carry a kid, she might think about it but that she has classrooms of them and that's enough.

 

Except for the part where you state that one of your students says teachers don't need kids because they have students, and you agree, because as a teacher you have sixty kids to look after. It kind of sucks when your own statements betray you. But I know better than to wait for an apology from your arrogance. I mean eminence.

 

It's a tough job. My dad taught special ed after industrial arts. He used to take his kids rock climbing. Then he got into torts in law school and realized how lucky he was that his kids never got hurt. My mom was a teacher. My sister is a teacher. My stepmother is a retired principal. My bs is in physical education. So I know it's a demanding job. And teachers are underappreciated.

 

No real justification. Unless you're republican. And are afraid of edumacation. My sister teaches in Tucson, AZ. With a master's and ten years experience, she makes about 44 a year. It's insane. Boulder valley school district, boulder colorado, a bachelor's first year teacher would start at about 34.