Anonymous wrote:And yes, I'm referring to the 29 y.o.,married to mid-life crisis guy, who says she doesn't want her own biological children (yeah, right.) Then why the hell are you, and others like you, spending so much time here? it's bizarre. have you never heard of reddit?

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at the end of the day, until you are responsible for another human being 24/7 your opinion holds little weight. As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes...

Having a child does not somehow make you the font of all knowledge of all things child-related. There are many people who have a lot of education and experience in raising children who have not been parents. We learned a TON from the pediatric nurses in the NICU who handle more children in a month than we had handled in our lives and I at least have had some childcare experience with nieces and babysitting. There are lots of parents such as Casey Anthony, Banita Jacks, John Michael Robey & Christina Dawn Moore, and hundreds more who I would never trust anything they said about raising children.

Frankly, if you are one of those parents who are so close-minded that you think that just procreating suddenly makes you more credible about childcare, then I feel sorry for your children. I learn more and more about childcare every day. From my children, from my friends' children. From our daycare workers (parents and non-parents), from pediatric nurses who don't have children, from parents and non-parents with backgrounds in early childhood development and so on. If you only take the advice, experience and opinions from those with children you are closing yourself off to a lot of information that may be helpful in raising your children.

blah blah blah I will always turn to my friends with kids for advice, my own parents, teachers and the medical community might be exceptions but most of them are parents too. You could name as many crack pots as you want and I could come back with just as many freak doctors, teachers, religious leaders, day care providers etc etc. Under NORMAL circumstances, if you aren't a parent keep your opinion to yourself. So yeah, I guess I am close minded.

Do you have doctors? Does your pediatrician have kids? Have you ever taken your child to the emergency room? Before you let the ER doc treat your child did you check to see if they were a parent?

Being a parent doesn't make you the smartest person in the world - I mean, look at you.

do you know how to read? I said with the exception of drs and teachers. Smartest person in the world? Did my seven year old write that?

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at the end of the day, until you are responsible for another human being 24/7 your opinion holds little weight. As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes...

Having a child does not somehow make you the font of all knowledge of all things child-related. There are many people who have a lot of education and experience in raising children who have not been parents. We learned a TON from the pediatric nurses in the NICU who handle more children in a month than we had handled in our lives and I at least have had some childcare experience with nieces and babysitting. There are lots of parents such as Casey Anthony, Banita Jacks, John Michael Robey & Christina Dawn Moore, and hundreds more who I would never trust anything they said about raising children.

Frankly, if you are one of those parents who are so close-minded that you think that just procreating suddenly makes you more credible about childcare, then I feel sorry for your children. I learn more and more about childcare every day. From my children, from my friends' children. From our daycare workers (parents and non-parents), from pediatric nurses who don't have children, from parents and non-parents with backgrounds in early childhood development and so on. If you only take the advice, experience and opinions from those with children you are closing yourself off to a lot of information that may be helpful in raising your children.

blah blah blah I will always turn to my friends with kids for advice, my own parents, teachers and the medical community might be exceptions but most of them are parents too. You could name as many crack pots as you want and I could come back with just as many freak doctors, teachers, religious leaders, day care providers etc etc. Under NORMAL circumstances, if you aren't a parent keep your opinion to yourself. So yeah, I guess I am close minded.

Do you have doctors? Does your pediatrician have kids? Have you ever taken your child to the emergency room? Before you let the ER doc treat your child did you check to see if they were a parent?

Being a parent doesn't make you the smartest person in the world - I mean, look at you.

Anonymous wrote:i agree with op. i totally get why those ttc come on here. but women who claim they do not want kids? who really comes to a mom and dad's site that doesn't want or like kids? i usually dont believe em.

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at the end of the day, until you are responsible for another human being 24/7 your opinion holds little weight. As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes...


Having a child does not somehow make you the font of all knowledge of all things child-related. There are many people who have a lot of education and experience in raising children who have not been parents. We learned a TON from the pediatric nurses in the NICU who handle more children in a month than we had handled in our lives and I at least have had some childcare experience with nieces and babysitting. There are lots of parents such as Casey Anthony, Banita Jacks, John Michael Robey & Christina Dawn Moore, and hundreds more who I would never trust anything they said about raising children.

Frankly, if you are one of those parents who are so close-minded that you think that just procreating suddenly makes you more credible about childcare, then I feel sorry for your children. I learn more and more about childcare every day. From my children, from my friends' children. From our daycare workers (parents and non-parents), from pediatric nurses who don't have children, from parents and non-parents with backgrounds in early childhood development and so on. If you only take the advice, experience and opinions from those with children you are closing yourself off to a lot of information that may be helpful in raising your children.


blah blah blah I will always turn to my friends with kids for advice, my own parents, teachers and the medical community might be exceptions but most of them are parents too. You could name as many crack pots as you want and I could come back with just as many freak doctors, teachers, religious leaders, day care providers etc etc. Under NORMAL circumstances, if you aren't a parent keep your opinion to yourself. So yeah, I guess I am close minded.

Anonymous wrote:And yes, I'm referring to the 29 y.o.,married to mid-life crisis guy, who says she doesn't want her own biological children (yeah, right.) Then why the hell are you, and others like you, spending so much time here? it's bizarre. have you never heard of reddit?

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at the end of the day, until you are responsible for another human being 24/7 your opinion holds little weight. As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes...

Having a child does not somehow make you the font of all knowledge of all things child-related. There are many people who have a lot of education and experience in raising children who have not been parents. We learned a TON from the pediatric nurses in the NICU who handle more children in a month than we had handled in our lives and I at least have had some childcare experience with nieces and babysitting. There are lots of parents such as Casey Anthony, Banita Jacks, John Michael Robey & Christina Dawn Moore, and hundreds more who I would never trust anything they said about raising children.

Frankly, if you are one of those parents who are so close-minded that you think that just procreating suddenly makes you more credible about childcare, then I feel sorry for your children. I learn more and more about childcare every day. From my children, from my friends' children. From our daycare workers (parents and non-parents), from pediatric nurses who don't have children, from parents and non-parents with backgrounds in early childhood development and so on. If you only take the advice, experience and opinions from those with children you are closing yourself off to a lot of information that may be helpful in raising your children.

blah blah blah I will always turn to my friends with kids for advice, my own parents, teachers and the medical community might be exceptions but most of them are parents too. You could name as many crack pots as you want and I could come back with just as many freak doctors, teachers, religious leaders, day care providers etc etc. Under NORMAL circumstances, if you aren't a parent keep your opinion to yourself. So yeah, I guess I am close minded.

Do you have doctors? Does your pediatrician have kids? Have you ever taken your child to the emergency room? Before you let the ER doc treat your child did you check to see if they were a parent?

Being a parent doesn't make you the smartest person in the world - I mean, look at you.

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at the end of the day, until you are responsible for another human being 24/7 your opinion holds little weight. As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes...

Having a child does not somehow make you the font of all knowledge of all things child-related. There are many people who have a lot of education and experience in raising children who have not been parents. We learned a TON from the pediatric nurses in the NICU who handle more children in a month than we had handled in our lives and I at least have had some childcare experience with nieces and babysitting. There are lots of parents such as Casey Anthony, Banita Jacks, John Michael Robey & Christina Dawn Moore, and hundreds more who I would never trust anything they said about raising children.

Frankly, if you are one of those parents who are so close-minded that you think that just procreating suddenly makes you more credible about childcare, then I feel sorry for your children. I learn more and more about childcare every day. From my children, from my friends' children. From our daycare workers (parents and non-parents), from pediatric nurses who don't have children, from parents and non-parents with backgrounds in early childhood development and so on. If you only take the advice, experience and opinions from those with children you are closing yourself off to a lot of information that may be helpful in raising your children.

blah blah blah I will always turn to my friends with kids for advice, my own parents, teachers and the medical community might be exceptions but most of them are parents too. You could name as many crack pots as you want and I could come back with just as many freak doctors, teachers, religious leaders, day care providers etc etc. Under NORMAL circumstances, if you aren't a parent keep your opinion to yourself. So yeah, I guess I am close minded.

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at the end of the day, until you are responsible for another human being 24/7 your opinion holds little weight. As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes...

Having a child does not somehow make you the font of all knowledge of all things child-related. There are many people who have a lot of education and experience in raising children who have not been parents. We learned a TON from the pediatric nurses in the NICU who handle more children in a month than we had handled in our lives and I at least have had some childcare experience with nieces and babysitting. There are lots of parents such as Casey Anthony, Banita Jacks, John Michael Robey & Christina Dawn Moore, and hundreds more who I would never trust anything they said about raising children.

Frankly, if you are one of those parents who are so close-minded that you think that just procreating suddenly makes you more credible about childcare, then I feel sorry for your children. I learn more and more about childcare every day. From my children, from my friends' children. From our daycare workers (parents and non-parents), from pediatric nurses who don't have children, from parents and non-parents with backgrounds in early childhood development and so on. If you only take the advice, experience and opinions from those with children you are closing yourself off to a lot of information that may be helpful in raising your children.

blah blah blah I will always turn to my friends with kids for advice, my own parents, teachers and the medical community might be exceptions but most of them are parents too. You could name as many crack pots as you want and I could come back with just as many freak doctors, teachers, religious leaders, day care providers etc etc. Under NORMAL circumstances, if you aren't a parent keep your opinion to yourself. So yeah, I guess I am close minded.

Anonymous wrote:Yeesh, what a terrible person!

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly 00:08. I mean, Honey Boo Boo's teenage sister just gave birth to a baby so now she's a parent. You'd take her advice over a 35 year old non-parent who has nannied, babysat, and been an aunt for 15 years?

THANK YOU!! And also to others who have said the same. I'm childfree but the devoted auntie to 5...my siblings have often asked for my perspective on parenting things because 1) I love the kids too and want the best for them 2) I'm a relatively intelligent human being able to talk on a variety of topics of which I have no first hand experience and 3) people outside the direct line of fire of a situation are sometimes able to see things more clearly than those in the trenches.

at the end of the day, until you are responsible for another human being 24/7 your opinion holds little weight. As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes...

NP here, I am childless but worked in preschool and now do research in the child development field. I post about things that I have a understanding of, whilst I don't have the responsibility of the 24/7 I do have something valid to offer many discussion on this forum. Assuming that you know all doesn't actually make you a good parent. I came to respect parents at school who asked my opinion even when they knew I myself was not a parent. I have worked with many women who choose to not have their own children after spending all day taking care of other's kids, and they know more about potty training, social/emotional needs, and discipline, than most parents walking through the door.

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at the end of the day, until you are responsible for another human being 24/7 your opinion holds little weight. As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes...

Having a child does not somehow make you the font of all knowledge of all things child-related. There are many people who have a lot of education and experience in raising children who have not been parents. We learned a TON from the pediatric nurses in the NICU who handle more children in a month than we had handled in our lives and I at least have had some childcare experience with nieces and babysitting. There are lots of parents such as Casey Anthony, Banita Jacks, John Michael Robey & Christina Dawn Moore, and hundreds more who I would never trust anything they said about raising children.

Frankly, if you are one of those parents who are so close-minded that you think that just procreating suddenly makes you more credible about childcare, then I feel sorry for your children. I learn more and more about childcare every day. From my children, from my friends' children. From our daycare workers (parents and non-parents), from pediatric nurses who don't have children, from parents and non-parents with backgrounds in early childhood development and so on. If you only take the advice, experience and opinions from those with children you are closing yourself off to a lot of information that may be helpful in raising your children.