Things that people don't tell you before you have a kid

[What?]

Everything will take at least 2x as long to get done.
Daycare is a merry-go-round of sickness.
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[fitz]

The smell of clean shirts makes them barf.

 

[DirtySteve]

From what I hear it's totally worth it, but I wouldn't know.

 

[nortiks]

When they are two or three, it feels like it will take 50 years to get them off to college.
When they go off to college, it feels like it was only 5 years ago that they were two or three.

 

[What?]

From what I hear it's totally worth it, but I wouldn't know.

I spent my younger years kidless, and I'm glad that I did so. I got to do a lot of exploring of this and that. Looking back, I also wasted too much time. I recognize too that virtually all parents I know who had kids in their younger years are ignorant to so many things because of so much time being spent raising their kids. Now that my kid is here I wouldn't give her up for anything. And I will probably regret getting less time with her as she gets older due to waiting so long. I wouldn't recommend to anyone waiting until your 40's to have a kid, but then again, I'm glad that I did.

 

[nortiks]

I spent my younger years kidless, and I'm glad that I did so. I got to do a lot of exploring of this and that. Looking back, I also wasted too much time. I recognize too that virtually all parents I know who had kids in their younger years are ignorant to so many things because of so much time being spent raising their kids. Now that my kid is here I wouldn't give her up for anything. And I will probably regret getting less time with her as she gets older due to waiting so long. I wouldn't recommend to anyone waiting until your 40's to have a kid, but then again, I'm glad that I did.

Same here, lol I was 50 for my first and like you, glad I waited. Kids got a much better dad than would have happened if I did all of that "on time". But you're right about the flip side of having less time with them going forward...gotta make every day count.

 

[DirtySteve]

I spent my younger years kidless, and I'm glad that I did so. I got to do a lot of exploring of this and that. Looking back, I also wasted too much time. I recognize too that virtually all parents I know who had kids in their younger years are ignorant to so many things because of so much time being spent raising their kids. Now that my kid is here I wouldn't give her up for anything. And I will probably regret getting less time with her as she gets older due to waiting so long. I wouldn't recommend to anyone waiting until your 40's to have a kid, but then again, I'm glad that I did.

That's truly awesome, man. I'm 56 (almost 57) and I figure that ship has sailed for me.

 

[Whizzercone]

No one knows what they are doing. It's all experimental trial by fire BS.

 

[DirtySteve]

Boy or girl?