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

[Anonymous]

I roll by eyes internally for sure and nod.

I used to think I was tired too.

International travel? Night out? Big work project?

At the end of it, you can sleep sleep sleep and recover.

You can't fathom life with kids till you're in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha! I am sure I did this before I had kids and now I roll my eyes at my former self. Same for how busy I thought I was. Aside from real crunch periods dummy Ph.D. I have never been as tired or as busy as I am now as a working mom of 2. I really was unprepared for how long the interrupted nights would go - I have a child with special needs who is has sleep issues sometimes and some unrelated medical issues that mess up all our sleep lately. I also end up working a lot at night to deal with kid stuff during the day.

But I would do it again in a heartbeat. Wouldn’t you?

Ha! During my Ph.D.. not a dummy Ph.D.

[Anonymous]

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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.

You might have gotten some sympathy if you had just said you are tired to be woken up multple times per night, but it's the unwarranted dig at childfree people that has earned you the snark.

How many do you have, 2 or 3? If someone with 4 or 5 kids posts they are annoyed when people with only 2 or 3 kids complain about being tired, they would deserve and get the same snark.

I have 3. That is why I haven’t slept well in a decade.

I am a little confused by this. I have 4 kids and they were definitely all sleeping through the night by age one, and most of them before that. Are they all 3 years apart and each didn't sleep through the night until age 3 to give you 10 solid years of night wakings?

NP. How old are your kids?

PP you are replying to. Teens through elementary. I definitely didn't sleep well when they were newborns, and now there is a lot of waiting up for teens, but
not sleeping well for a decade sounds like an exaggeration to me.

[Anonymous]

I had a boss like that. Just because I don't have kids I can't have feelings and feel tired. And worse is she is a religious nut against vaccines abd meds

Be nice toward others. Op, you're not the center of the universe. Anyone can feel tired

[Anonymous]

Whenever I hear parents like OP. I say in my mind Why did you choose to have kids then? To complain? STFUP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP all the child free folks must be free right now and browsing DCUM based on these responses. By the way, I don’t say but yes, I cringe when I hear oh I’m soooooo tired or oh I haven’t had time for any self care and doing my nails lolz they’re ridiculous but I just nod smile and judge away. Same like with pet parents saying it’s the same like having kids.

Haha my boss does her nails, complains about having kids and she can't even buy new clothes for her daughter. She sucks. She has time for nails and buy boots every week. She's a parent, tired but she chose to get nails done and more instead of having relax time.

So no. Even busy parents dies their hair at hair salons, gets nails done. I would chose my time wisely. Who cares about nails. Some women...


Some parents are tired because they choose that life, her fault. And when a chilfree person complains about being tired the one with children should listen like the people child free listens to parents complaining about their own kids and how tired they are.

[Anonymous]

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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.

People here are miserable, OP, so you can expect zero compassion for anything, ever.

OP was the one showing no compassion.

[Anonymous]

Because you remember yourself at that age complaining about being tired and knowing today that you were an idiot. But there is no reason to begrudge anyone else their own journey or priorities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whenever I hear parents like OP. I say in my mind Why did you choose to have kids then? To complain? STFUP

This is really what OP is saying though. They chose to have kids and now realize how much they took for granted. It's not about you, its about them.

[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.

Partying can be exhausting. I find it tiresome when women complain about how hard it is to have children. Your choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a boss like that. Just because I don't have kids I can't have feelings and feel tired. And worse is she is a religious nut against vaccines abd meds

Be nice toward others. Op, you're not the center of the universe. Anyone can feel tired

+1

Great response! Victim olympics is a professional pastime these days.

[Anonymous]

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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.

People here are miserable, OP, so you can expect zero compassion for anything, ever.

OP was the one showing no compassion.

No, she was venting about something completely understandable. It's like no one here is allowed to be a flawed human being. I mean, read the room - if I know someone has a new baby at home, I'm not going to blather on about how exhausted *I* am.

[Anonymous]

The problem here is OP is not considerate towards others. Be respectful when someone says they're tired. If childfree people hear parents complaining of thier parent life then they can listen others people's complains too like the child free people.

The problem is some people don't listen. Listen and hear their story.

[Anonymous]

Do you think childfree people have no other responsibilities?? I don't assume someone doesn't get enough sleep just because they have kids and I don't assume someone is well rested just because they don't.

[Anonymous]

OK OP is a little annoying, but just here to say that literally anyone complaining at work about being tired is annoying. The parents of young kids are the most boring of this annoying group.

Yes, I have kids.