Someone plugged in my biological clock

[Mischka]

I'm not exactly brimming with maternal instinct. I've always viewed children as small aliens with relatively large heads. They're ok, and a practical necessity for the perpetuation of the species, but I've never had an urge to get one for myself.

Then last week I actually caught myself smiling at one of them. Just some random kid in the grocery store, but for a flickering moment, I thought he was cute. Ick.

I hate biological urges.

 

[alexandraaah]

The remedy...

Go to freakygurl's thread about her weekend.

If I wasn't such a dumbass I'd insert the link myself.

This is much more fun, though.

 

[seXieleXie]

cultural... not biological

 

[freakygirl]

*packing her 6 year olds bags*


I'll cure that urge.. keep her a week. It will be all gone

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

a child would make you happy

and more improtant girl....

you'd make a child happy.

 

[freakygirl]

Re: The remedy...

Go to freakygurl's thread about her weekend.

If I wasn't such a dumbass I'd insert the link myself.

This is much more fun, though.

LMAO... good one!

 

[Mischka]

I really don't think it's cultural, seXie. I've been devoid of any and all maternal urges, and now all of a sudden that thought hit me like a lightening bolt. I'm approaching the age my mother was when she had me (I'm her first). I still have no intention of making my womb swell anytime soon, but the idea is just not as foreign as it used to be. I can't pinpoint any social changes - none of my friends are pregnant, no family members have mentioned the idea (they are banned from mentioning grandkids until after law school), so I'm afraid that it may not be cultural. And that concerns me.

 

[Rubyfruit]

Mischka, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

I pretty much felt the same way you do about kids until I hit my early-to-mid-30s. Then it was like my mother took over my uterus or something.



p.s. Spend a week at our house and you'll probably be scheduling a tubal on your way home.

 

[JazzManJim]

Well *that* explains what woke me up early from my nap....

 

[Mischka]

Re: The remedy...

Go to freakygurl's thread about her weekend.

Ooh! Good idea - I'm on my way.



(And thanks, Fly. That was a nice thing to say. )

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Mischka, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

I pretty much felt the same way you do about kids until I hit my early-to-mid-30s. Then it was like my mother took over my uterus or something.

UNTILL YOU HIT YOUR MID 30'S????????

holy shit. I thought you were in your mid to late 20's

 

[Mischka]

Mischka, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

I'm still very young - 27. I haven't picked up any expectant mom magazines or anything, just this was my first semi-positive thought towards young humans. It kinda knocked the wind out of me; I've never had such a thought before.

The good thing is that if the urge intensifies and I decide kids are in my future, I know Mr. Mischka will be a kick ass dad. He is amazing with kids.

 

[Rubyfruit]

The good thing is that if the urge intensifies and I decide kids are in my future, I know Mr. Mischka will be a kick ass dad. He is amazing with kids.

Excellent. That will make the job so much easier.

I hardly gave children a second thought, much less the idea of having any of my own, when I was in my 20s. In fact, I really wondered why anybody would have them, when they could have dogs instead.

 

[Gilly Bean]

Excellent. That will make the job so much easier.

I hardly gave children a second thought, much less the idea of having any of my own, when I was in my 20s. In fact, I really wondered why anybody would have them, when they could have dogs instead.

I still think that, and I have 3! Though, for us, we keep asking why we didn't just raise kittens and sunflowers instead. Some days, sheesh. Kids are great, but good lord, you have got to have the patience of a saint to get through an entire hour (let alone day) without wanting to scream and lock em in thier rooms!

 

[Guest]

I like kids but I couldn't eat a whole one!!

 

[Rubyfruit]

I know what you mean, Gilly. I have 3 as well. Frankly, I've amazed myself at my level of patience with them. And my self-control in not beating the living crap out of them.

 

[Aphrodisiac]

Some times I get that feeling , where I want to have a baby ... but then reality sets in and I know I am to selfish with my time right now to have children.

I simply adore children & I love taking care of my 2 yr old nephew. He is beyond words he is the love of my life but then its nice when my sister comes to pick him up & I can go back to my so called life.

 

[LRC]

Wait till school starts .....

I thought the toddler years were difficult then 4th grade and 5th grade hit .. aaarrrgggghhhhhhh endless homework. Stuff I thought I had forgotten forever coming back to haunt me.
Lowest common denominator, solvent, solute, solution, John Smith and Pochahantas ... aaarrghhhhhhhh.

By the way Pocha-girl maried John Rolfe not John Smith.

 

[Harbinger]

Maybe I'm going against the majority here

I love it. I love spending time with my kids. My son is twelve and my daughter is eleven. She almost died when she was an infant. The thought that she might not be around today is more than I can imagine. Just speaking for myself, when I look back on who I was before I learned to be a parent, I didn't know anything about what love really is. Being a parent has made me a better person, and the reward has been beyond counting. Sure, it has been hard work, and frustrating, and there were times when I wondered if I was big enough to carry that load. But I can honestly say that the fact that those two needed me to be there probably saved my life. My life is divided into two parts: before them and after them. They make me happy. I didn't know that before.

 

[Rubyfruit]

Harbinger, I don't think you're in the minority here. All of the moms on this thread have gushed love about their kids all over this board. But sometimes we vent too.

For me, I didn't know I could love so much. It felt like my heart would explode out of my chest after I had my children.

Sometimes I close my eyes and breath it all in - the love. It's amazing.

 

[Mischka]

Damnit, Harbinger, I just said that my biological clock was now pugged in. I don't need an incentive to set an alarm.

 

[Harbinger]

Now, wait a second, I only said my kids are wonderful. Everybody else's are little monsters.










Actually, I love kids. Don't tell!