Can't speak for anyone else of course, but before kids a day with no obligations was mostly just a nice day. With kids it is so much more significant.
My colleagues that don't have kids, they waste their time. Not by doing nothing - that would be awesome - but by creating problems for themselves that end up taking their spare time. It is like they believe they will always have empty days to spare.
You know your perspective also works in reverse. When I was young I wanted time away from my parents. Now that they're gone, I would love to spend even 5 minutes with them.
Au contraire, I get Columbus day off work. None of my kids are off school :) I’ve been looking forward to this coming Monday for months. Those brief periods of solitude must be taken advantage of with kids.
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Joys of being a non parent. I miss those 'open days' :(
Can't speak for anyone else of course, but before kids a day with no obligations was mostly just a nice day. With kids it is so much more significant.
My colleagues that don't have kids, they waste their time. Not by doing nothing - that would be awesome - but by creating problems for themselves that end up taking their spare time. It is like they believe they will always have empty days to spare.
If I told you, “Having kids is a waste of your time” you’d be 100% sure that I’m wrong. And I might be. I might not be. All depends on perspective.
But there you sit confidently making a judgement about someone else’s time just like I did with you.
Sounds like "youth is wasted on the young" :)
You know your perspective also works in reverse. When I was young I wanted time away from my parents. Now that they're gone, I would love to spend even 5 minutes with them.
balance is a never ending struggle.
Au contraire, I get Columbus day off work. None of my kids are off school :) I’ve been looking forward to this coming Monday for months. Those brief periods of solitude must be taken advantage of with kids.
Being a parent is why I value them
You're right though -- all the parents I know desperately want alone time.
and decade later you will miss 'occupied' days.
That’s what grandparents are for. Or at least were, in the past.