It should be noted here that “hobbies” in this case should provide enrichment to the kids that are in your life tangentially.
Be the cool Aunt/Uncle that inspires. Give kids gifts that create memories and are unique. Open the door to creativity that their patents can’t afford it don’t have the time to manage. Basically, be grandparents with less doting and better knees.
Brewing beer or playing COD doesn’t hit the same way as teaching someone to cook or code or carve wood.
All the haters don’t like it when you make them feel some sort of responsibility that doesn’t serve them directly.
Chilfree for life, baby! My bloodline ends with me!
Same.
Let’s all carve elaborate weird and loud toys for our breeder friends.
This is important and highlights some problems with trends in the modern world. At one point, we had an agreement that the average family would sacrifice 40 labor hours to the economy in return for enough resources to sustain a family. Now it’s 80.
Parents should have plenty of time to engage in childish pursuits alongside their kids. It’s natural, traditional, healthy and constructive to multi-generational, extended family households. I know that’s not what everyone wants, but I feel like it should at least be an option.
It should be okay for a person to work 20 hours per week. We have the technology to make that sustainable. If someone wants to work 80 to accumulate luxuries for themselves, I think that’s fine, too. What I hate is observing people being forced to live in poverty while working 40+ hours. I am aware that almost no one working full time is below the federal poverty limit, but that’s because it’s a nonsense metric. It’s unconscionable that anyone should have to live in poverty in the modern world, but it’s insane that full-time wages don’t necessarily cover the cost of living.
I believe this creates a situation which raises children without a sense of community outside of work, and now we’re watching them burn down the village as 70-year-olds. There’s a saying about how bad times create strong people, strong people create good times, good times create weak people, and weak people create bad times. I don’t believe it for a second. Strong people and peoples are those with strong social bonds. They needn’t be biological. Screwed up families exist and it’s okay to get away and find a real family elsewhere.These communities create good times, which create even stronger people.
So therefore, go and do silly things with kids. Play Minecraft or Fortnite or kick-the-can or hide-and-seek, sing baby shark, or watch Bluey. Not just because our future depends on it, but because it’s fun. We are supposed to be happy as a minimum standard. Not all the time, but at least as an average. It’s not even the goal of life; it’s the method. We’re supposed to enjoy doing constructive things. That’s how positive reinforcement works, and the current system is not only failing to acknowledge that, but it’s diverging from it.
Go and be childish.
They needed more cannon fodder back in the day. Also child labour.
And children to feed to the Epstein class.
You’re not wrong but please don’t rub it in 😥
Meh grass is always greener. I’m sure there are lots of stuff about having kids which are amazing.
Its true, but [politics incoming] it’s harder since the nuclear home resulted in the elimination of community, and both parents are forced to work to get by, and it only looks to be getting worse.
Raising kids is great (for many people), but it shouldn’t be your entire life. The unfortunate reality is that work and raising kids is the only life many people have access to.
It’s also not really the case that parents are “doing it to keep the population up” so the premise is wrong.
But it’s funny to imagine it that way
Well now I’m going to run it in! Neener neener neeeeener!
Jk. You are right though, we need wider community, and this capitalist hellscape has ruined a great many things, in addition to raising a family. I honestly have no clue how my parents, especially my mom did it.
I asked my parents exactly this.
They said something like
It was possible to live on one salary, so your mother could be a full time stay at home mom. This gave us the energy to be able to follow other passions
Basically 2 people with 2 full-time jobs between them have more energy than 2 people with 3 full time jobs between them.
Mom could volunteer and join clubs while I was at school. Dad could do marathons on the weekend. We could do family activities like camping or skiing because they weren’t exhausted by also having to do another 40 hours of work per week between them.
Yeah, but my mom worked full time (over, really, more than 40hrs plus a long commute) dad also worked full time, plus a teacher so lots of extra junk t at teachers have to do. Still, they raised me and were there for me.
Insane.
I’m assuming they also had more family and community than we have. And a lot less social pressure.
I had so much unsupervised time lol.
lol same on the unsupervised time.
Thank you for your service.
Taking one for the team.
As a working parent, I ask that you consume my work product as you nobly chillax.
I’m already doing that.
Of course…I transform myself into animals and fuck married women, sometimes I transform myself into those women’s husbands and fuck them. My wife is great, she lets me fuck around
Are you Zeus? Because if that’s the case I don’t think you wife is as cool with it as you think she is.
meh, it builds character to have a goddess try to kill you. Really she’s just toughening them up
You are right about that!
@[email protected] should have a look what’s up.
do they have a file on me too?
There is nothing more tragic than getting what one wants.
I mean i can help you with your wife while your busy with the others
