true..
but you get the idea.

I can see why some people become all right wing/Daily Mail when they have kids - the need to make sure that they don't ever suffer harm is just hard-wired and totally overwhelming. I'd hate to ever upset my little one and if anyone ever hurt her, I'd quite happily rip them apart and I know that most parents feel the same - it's why you see them screaming at each other because one kid stole another kid's toy at playschool, etc.

Sometimes it can be almost scary how having kids affects your life, but when they smile and give you a hug, there isn't a drug in the world that can brighten your day more.

Of course, I resign myself to years of poverty, lack of sleep, never seeing sports on TV, being used as a Taxi, being used as a cash machine, being mocked for my taste in clothes and music and everything else. But I really wouldn't change it for the world.
(Chad, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 12:04, 3 replies)

I agree totally...
...with every word you say; the seven-mile slog home on my bike uphill, against the wind, occasionally getting soaked to the skin, almost always putting my life in danger, is immediately forgotten when my little boy sees me and beams at me, just because I'm there.
(Sir Itchalot has a very self-referential signature, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:06, closed)

Probably not quite ready yet
Absolutely agree, mate.

A friend asked, after my first daughter was born, what I felt that I hadn't expected. I replied that it was hard to live with the feeling that whatever I did, however much I looked after her and protected her, something bad might still happen to her.

"Hm," she replied, "I guess it's a bit like having a white carpet."

**Facepalm**
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 13:08, closed)

This ^
Before my little one was on the go I didn't want kids. Now I couldn't be without her. I worked a nightshift job I hated (and made me ill with depression)for 2.5 years just to make sure I could support her. I'd do anything for her.

I can't watch those adverts for kids in Africa nowadays, I was crying at police camera action last night cos some cunt was doing 70 in a 30 zone and paralysed a 1-year old girl for life. I can't even watch Toy Story 2 or Finding Nemo without getting upset that something might happen to her, no matter how irrational I know that is. It was worse on nightshift cos at 4am there's an endless amount of shit your brain will come out with.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 18:19, closed)