Comments on: Making Babies

By: markm

markm — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:07:52 +0000

In a year or two, you won’t be complaining about them not doing anything, you’ll be complaining about what they did.

By: nk

nk — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:59:58 +0000

“But I often wish I was single again, just for like a day or two. You know, get up in the morning, kick whatshername out, sit on the couch in my underwear watching TeeVee all day.”

I ship them off to my mother-in-law for two weeks or to other relatives for three or four days. God knows what they do. What I do is in the same spirit if not exactly what you said. The last time, I replaced our grungy back-porch stairs with a cedar one. When they came back, I got “But what I wish you had done was paint the deck (boohoo)”. (I like carpentry, I hate painting.)

By: #9

#9 — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:46:17 +0000

That is a happy young one.

By: mike hollihan

mike hollihan — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:54:37 +0000

I love the purely economic analyses that show that in agricultural nations the cost-benefit ratio leans to having lots of kids. Many hands make light work and all that, when keeping the farm running takes a lot of work. But in advanced post-industrial nations like America and Europe and Japan/Korea, the benefit actually becomes a loss in that any kid is a drag on resources that could be directed to the parents. Add to that the erosion of traditional religion and the movement of women to the workplace (beyond the home), and increased education for women (which makes high-dollar and high-demand jobs possible) and you get where we are now.

BTW, although America is still growing, all growth is through immigrant and non-white populations. Middle and upper class whites and those blacks who enter that environment are having almost no babies.

By: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:31:28 +0000

Forgot this one.

They will grow up to look like you.

By: Tennessee Budd

Tennessee Budd — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:04:52 +0000

I can’t stand the little larvae, myself. That’s why I don’t have any. Thank God the girlfriend’s been spayed.

By: Jay G

Jay G — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:08:31 +0000

But that won�t happen again for, like, 18 years.

That’s what your second childhood is for. It’s the reason my dad now owns a Jeep and an RV…

Heck, it’s why I have a Harley, and I’m just barely in middle age (statistically I believe that’ll happen in April…)

What you need is for the Missus to take the kids to visit her folks for a couple of days (and, of course, for you to take them to visit your folks for a few days to balance out). My wife flew out to CA to visit her cousins last year (actually ‘05) and the rest did her a world of good.

I take my rest 2-3 hours at a time at the range…