This is a strange take. It’s okay to be a parent that wants alone time, or time away from their kids. It’s no different than wanting time alone from any family member. It doesn’t mean you don’t love them, it means you enjoy being with yourself and fulfilling your own wishes sometimes. I have a really hard time believing anyone who says they love to be around a toddler 24/7. It’s just not humanly possible.
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Pofski@lemmy.world 8 months agoCovid has shown me that a lot of parents shouldn’t be. During the period that everybody was stuck at home there was a large amount of people that found out that they don’t know, or want, to raise a child and couldn’t wait to get them to schools or activities just to get rid of them.
My ex used to say “you can’t be expected to give up your social life just because you have a child”. My kids and I are better off now.
StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
My solution to not wanting to be around a toddler 24/7 is to not make a toddler in the first place.
FatCrab@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Cool. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about then!
Mac@mander.xyz 8 months ago
“I may not know how to fly a helicopter but I know there’s something wrong when it’s on fire” or whatever the quote is
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yes, children are truly a mystery. And very complex.
swearengen@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
And you get crucified for by them if you bring it up.
I understand battling the pull of phones and tablets with kids is hard but you’re lying to your self if you think it’s going to work out ok if you give in, *every other kid has one how bad could it go? *
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
“It takes a village to raise a child” is an old expression for a reason. Historically, parents wouldn’t take care of their kids 24/7. They would have grandparents, aunts, neighbours and friends to help share the load.
The modern idea that parents and parents alone do 100% of everything to raise a child is a very modern western thing.
swearengen@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
We better adapt soon becuse the village is dead and it isn’t coming back.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
For the families who can afford it, daycare is the replacement.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Where I live it’s literally cheaper to lease an electric car than it is to put a kid 5 days per week in daycare.
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Actually play groups and friend networks are pretty common now