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Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I felt very strongly that I didn't want anyone but my boyfriend and I being the ones instilling values and morals in our kids.
That's funny. You're talking values but you're not married to the father of your child?
You know what's funny? Forcing a marriage because you're going to have a child. Very irresponsible.
Anonymous wrote:My family has been lucky to always be well off, and this is one of those things I could never ever bring up with anyone I know, but am secretly fascinated by poor people and wonder about so many aspects of their lives.
Do you shop at WalMart?
Do you eat fast food all the time?
How big is your home?
What do you DO on weekends?
Where do you go on vacations?
Do you have very few clothes? Shoes?
If you're too poor to go out, what do you do to get together with friends?
Do you have any friends who are well off?
What do you do for fun?
What do you think is the qualifier that makes a person poor?
Do your kids know you're poor?
What do they do after school?
Do they get teased in school?
I always watch movies about really poor people and this whole lifestyle just fascinates me.
Hey, OP, if you're so secretly fascinated by poor people, you could come work for me. I'll pay you a salary of 220k a year to cook and clean at my two homes in NW DC and my condo in Arlington. My chef just left to start a restaurant in Chicago... so having to fend for myself really stinks :\ The cleaner had to return to London for a year, so I'm forced to use the local maid services.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I felt very strongly that I didn't want anyone but my boyfriend and I being the ones instilling values and morals in our kids.
I hope you are trolling.
Having kids out of wedlock is immoral, so this leaves me to wonder if you were concerned about exposing your children to positive influences?
And I hope you are trolling. Forcing your beliefs on others is immoral, so this leaves me to wonder if you were concerned about exposing your children to positive influences.
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Anonymous wrote:When we got married, it was one thing after the other. Now we have a newborn and I'm trying to have her baptized. THey make this whole process SO. UNBELIEVABLY. DIFFICULT. I am really on the verge of just saying screw it. I don't understand why they are doing this? Shouldn't they want to encourage young adults to remain active in the Church/introduce the next generation to Catholicism? If that's their intent, they are seriously going about it the WRONG way.
Why baptize near time of birth? It would mean a lot more to your child if they made the choice to be baptized later in life, understanding full well the consequences.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think people who get naked in public are disgraceful. I don't care what everyone else is doing- there is no reason to walk around a locker room naked. This is what group think produces... "now kids, your body parts are private- keep them covered except when everyone else is not". I'd never take my kids to a pool where women and men are walking around naked. Going to the pool is a family event- not a swingers retreat.
Now you can save all that "don't be ashamed of your body...you are so uptight...puritan...Americans are so blah blah blah" for your naked sister circle. I don't want to hear it. You aren't changing my mind so save it for your fellow naked wanderers.
I'm not changing in a stall with pee on the floor. Yikes! It's naked or nothing. We all have bodies, it is what it is.
I know.... Possible pee on the floor when you are wearing socks and/or flip flops- yuck. Sitting your belongings and behind on a bench where someones naked ass and vaginal juices sat- no big deal.
buh? Why are there vaginal juices on the bench?
You know what's really irritating? Those of religious faith that can't quite understand how someone without religion could possibly have morals.
If you are one such individual: There are many who do not require god (or gods) in order to have morals. In fact, it's my experience that those who follow a religion tend to have a looser grasp on morality because of a belief system that promotes forgiveness and absolution of sins.
If you are one such individual: There are many who do not require god (or gods) in order to have morals. In fact, it's my experience that those who follow a religion tend to have a looser grasp on morality because of a belief system that promotes forgiveness and absolution of sins.
Anonymous wrote:trollol wrote:My parents raised two kids on an income of just below 45k in Bellevue, Washington. We had a nice, 4 bedroom house in the 98005 zip code. It's completely possible to raise a family in a high cost-of-living city and still provide great childhood memories. Folks posting hyperbole like the inability to fathom a family existence under 150k HII are out of touch with reality. Realize that the majority of Americans survive, thrive, and raise very happy families with incomes well below the 100k mark.
If you're having problems staying happy above that six-figure line, you really should reconsider your spending habits.
Did they pay for college? Are they able to travel? Can they retire?
Both my sister and I graduated from the University of Washington on a mixture of loans and scholarships. I paid for grad school on the East Coast myself. My sister went to UW nursing on additional loans/scholarships.
They travel very rarely (once or twice a year) and both are able to retire, though both work (father in his 60s, mother in her late 50s) and will likely work for another decade.
I believe that parents are responsible for a children's college tuition if they force college on their kids. Otherwise, it should be up to the kids to figure out how to pay their way through school.
My parents raised two kids on an income of just below 45k in Bellevue, Washington. We had a nice, 4 bedroom house in the 98005 zip code. It's completely possible to raise a family in a high cost-of-living city and still provide great childhood memories. Folks posting hyperbole like the inability to fathom a family existence under 150k HII are out of touch with reality. Realize that the majority of Americans survive, thrive, and raise very happy families with incomes well below the 100k mark.
If you're having problems staying happy above that six-figure line, you really should reconsider your spending habits.
If you're having problems staying happy above that six-figure line, you really should reconsider your spending habits.
Anonymous wrote:I've done both OP, birth without epidural and birth with epidural and the only significant conclusion that I can draw is all that truly matters is the baby and mother alive and healthy at the end of it.
To me, people who obsess about the "birth experience" are similiar to those who obsess about the wedding. It is the life long love and committment to your child, such as it is the life long love amd commiitment to your spouse, that matters. The birth amd weddings are just the vehicle to get you there.
So true. Reading these other moms compare unmedicated vs medicated was oddly reminiscent of high school boys comparing penis sizes. Who cares as long as mother and baby are safe and sound?
My only issue with Cersei is her inclination towards incest. Otherwise, she's doing an admirable job being a mom given the circumstances.
Alexandria, around Duke St. & Quaker Ln. There were definitely several bolts of lightning that sounded more like detonations during the night...
Anyone else wake up to the crazy lightning/thunderstorm rolling through the area at around 0200 and think it was a bomb going off? Gee thanks, Al Qaida!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Brains. Escargot are delicious!
If you had the chance to kill one of them as a young man, before they had a chance to wreak havoc: Hitler or Stalin?
Hitler.
Lights on or off during sex?
On. My wife is hot.
Would you rather eat a dog or a cat?