Why do I find it annoying when childfree people say they are tired?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate when people without kids complain about the costs to board their pets when they travel. I wish I could board my kids for a few days or hire a neighbor to come and walk them a couple times a day while we go to Europe. Unfortunately, the answer for us is we just can't go to Europe unless we bring the kids.

Meh. My dog's camp is literally more expensive than my plane ticket to Asia.

[Anonymous]

It's okay to be annoyed and sympathetic at the same time. I get annoyed when I hear people w/o kids complain and also vividly remember being one of those people myself. It's like you can't know how good you have it till you undergo the life change. People w/one kid complain all the time--I did--and now I complain even more with two kids and inwardly roll my eyes at the single kid whiners.

[Anonymous]

(PP here--but I still sympathize w/them b/c I remember 1 kid being hard too!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because their life looks easy to you. But in reality you may have no idea what they are dealing with.
Yes, young kids are difficult. But other things are difficult too!

But even if their life IS easier, so what? Those of us with kids wanted kids and knew some things would be sacrificed for a while, like sleep and time and money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They go out all night and don’t get good sleep and complain they are tired. Or there is an inconvenience for a night and two. Try not getting a good night sleep for YEARS due to having young kids. I have had a decade of bad sleep.

Anyone else get annoyed about this?

I’m sure I was sometimes tired when I was childfree.

I read stuff like this and just think all the whining about young kids and how hard it is means you're probably just not very good at it.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I was just venting on a parenting forum. I thought other parents would say how tired they were to be woken up multiple times per night or how they have to get woken up to then wake up earlier than the kids to get ready for work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They go out all night and don’t get good sleep and complain they are tired. Or there is an inconvenience for a night and two. Try not getting a good night sleep for YEARS due to having young kids. I have had a decade of bad sleep.

Anyone else get annoyed about this?

I’m sure I was sometimes tired when I was childfree.

I read stuff like this and just think all the whining about young kids and how hard it is means you're probably just not very good at it.

Why are you on a general parenting forum? Pretty sad. I had better things to do or better websites to browse than a parenting forum when I wasn’t one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I was just venting on a parenting forum. I thought other parents would say how tired they were to be woken up multiple times per night or how they have to get woken up to then wake up earlier than the kids to get ready for work.

Yeah, it's tiring and it is the result of choices you made... no one cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate when people without kids complain about the costs to board their pets when they travel. I wish I could board my kids for a few days or hire a neighbor to come and walk them a couple times a day while we go to Europe. Unfortunately, the answer for us is we just can't go to Europe unless we bring the kids.

Your kids sound terrible. Yes, sucks majorly for you. Don't you wish and pray that you were childless?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They go out all night and don’t get good sleep and complain they are tired. Or there is an inconvenience for a night and two. Try not getting a good night sleep for YEARS due to having young kids. I have had a decade of bad sleep.

Anyone else get annoyed about this?

I’m sure I was sometimes tired when I was childfree.

I read stuff like this and just think all the whining about young kids and how hard it is means you're probably just not very good at it.

+1

But it is not only bad parenting, but often times it is a bad marriage, financial issues, dirty/littered home and kids who are dumb/ugly/difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do some women who choose to have kids take out their frustrations about being a mom on people who chose not to have kids?

Because they expect the world to take care of their children. The entitlement is immense. They go and fuxck without condoms and their kids becomes our problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate when people without kids complain about the costs to board their pets when they travel. I wish I could board my kids for a few days or hire a neighbor to come and walk them a couple times a day while we go to Europe. Unfortunately, the answer for us is we just can't go to Europe unless we bring the kids.

Op here. I had a coworker who told me his puppy was harder than having a newborn.

Probably they are right. Why do you care though?

- Mom of two kids.

[Anonymous]

As a childfree person I am bemused by parents complaining about how tired they are. This is literally why I didn't have kids--because they are exhausting. How is it that I knew this and so many apparently didn't?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because their life looks easy to you. But in reality you may have no idea what they are dealing with.
Yes, young kids are difficult. But other things are difficult too!

But even if their life IS easier, so what? Those of us with kids wanted kids and knew some things would be sacrificed for a while, like sleep and time and money.

+ 1
Women have control over their fertility. They can choose not to have kids if they don't want to do the work that being a parent entails. It is shocking that these women are so immature and yet they are reproducing like rabbits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a childfree person I am bemused by parents complaining about how tired they are. This is literally why I didn't have kids--because they are exhausting. How is it that I knew this and so many apparently didn't?

- Mom of two.