So everyone wins. |
No, you don’t. I haven’t met any big families where kids are well mannered. The parents don’t have time or energy for this. They can barely function. They can barely get out of the house after loading everyone into the car. So when they arrive somewhere, with a relief they just drop the kids to free range and nobody cares how they behave. |
And that’s fine! I have kids but fully support child free weddings. Sometimes we go, sometimes we don’t, but I don’t find the notion of people not wanting be around kids rude or insulting. |
I thought OP is going to write that they leave kids home alone and that's not safe.
Also, where do you live that you know so many families like that? I know zero. |
It seems kind of weird to go through the trouble of inviting somebody you don't actually want to attend. |
I invited relatives I didn't really know so well at the request of my parents. I wouldn't have said I didn't want them to attend. It was nice for them to be there for my parents' sake. But it wouldn't have bothered me if they didn't. And it wasn't trouble inviting them. It was just adding them to the list. |
So do boomers. Maybe they should stay home with a babysitter too. |
OP is complaining about kids at music lessons, sporting events and the grocery store. |
The important thing is that you havr never seem me with more than 5 kids at a time. |
Reported for ageism. What if the poster had substituted the word blacks? An ism is an ism. |
I'd be more impressed if you took care of all your kids instead of having your kids parent them. |
And? I am responding to the person quoted. |
Great. Maybe you should report this whole thread for child-ism. It’s exactly the same thing |
+100. It is. Why is someone who doesn’t think it is appropriate for kids to be in grocery stores, sports practice, weddings, and music class posting this on a parenting forum? Children are not abhorrent. Your ideas about children are abhorrent. |
And this is why there are so many posts about having no friends. Do this too many times and people stop inviting you altogether. And then your kids leave you and you’re with your husband and nothing to talk about now that the kids are gone. The choices you make come back to you in time… |