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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so sad and indicative of how a lot of millennial parents feel about childrearing, including many in my orbit.

To the parents who complain about having to spend time with their young children: why did you decide to have children in the first place if you don't enjoy being around them? I'm genuinely curious.

Kids grow up so fast! Once they're 11 or 12, they no longer want to have anything to do with you. Enjoy your time together while you are still their world.[/quote]

NP - parenting the last couple years isn't what parenting is supposed to be like!  doing it alone in your house (maybe with a nanny) without mom friends and playdates and places to take your kids on weekends and the ability to have a babysitter to go out to dinner and family bbqs and visitors etc etc etc.  Adults are made to spend endless hours alone with their kids and thats what the last couple years have been.  I moved 2 years ago and have made exactly one friend b/c at school drop off we are expected to distance and shove our 3yos in the door, people have started going to play spaces again but no one is chatting etc.  Weekends are miserable - not because i don't love my kids but because parenting in these isolated vacuums isn't normal![/quote]

I’m cracking up. You all are crazy! 
Oh give me a break! [b]My kids are middle schoolers now, so we had no pandemic when they were toddlers. [/b]We rarely socialized with friends on weekends unless it was a birthday party.  It was our “family time” - we went on hikes, activities, museums, out to eat, explored town, puttered around at home, went to the park and library. Yeah certain things have been closed during the pandemic, but not so much anymore.  Staying inside all the time IS depressing, but that’s a choice you make, certainly not a requirement. [/quote]

You should have stopped right there or, better yet, not posted at all!

You.  Have.  No.  Idea.  What parenting a toddler has been like.  None[/quote]

Completely agree. No offense, PP, but if you have tweens why on earth are you posting on a baby board? If your last experience with small children was more than a decade ago I’m sorry to say that your view/advice, pandemic aside, is going to be outdated. Your comment, while well meaning, is proof of that. Unfortunately, you don’t really understand. [/quote][/quote]

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