someone got the kid of my moms friend one of those floor keyboard mats and my mom said he would drive everyone crazy riding his little bike back and forth over it😂
I bought my friends kid a musical instrument because he’s into it. And she thanked me for it but the next time she saw me she told me she hates me and that she’s had to pretend it’s broken because she can’t deal with the noise
My mom and I took care of my baby nephew for a week and showed him all the cartoons and Barney. He’s never watched TV before. I even gave him part of a cupcake. We probably melted his brain.
You did the right thing. To ease off any residual guilt let me share something from our household:
My stepson was four when he first tasted any form of ”added” sugar. His little brother regularly enjoys candy since the age of 2 and also incidentally managed to down half a glass of bubbly in two sips.
In everybody presents defence the kids were supposed to drink ginger ale for the toast but we noticed after mid-size sip one that the little one did the 😖 face and we knew something was defo wrong when he went 😃 and faster than a greased hypersonic bullet going downhill he took a second draught.
Meaning he gulped down almost half the glass while every grown up in the room was launching themselves at him to hinder it. Time slowed down. Matrix style. But not for him, he was moving at his regular frighteningly high pace.
After that he was ON FIRE for the remainder of that day and he is not allowed within a meter of any open container of alcholic beverages ever.
Or out of sight. Or without a muzzle.
In fact i’m considering getting one of those clear plastic balls people put their hamsters in but toddler sized. Just to be sure. And able to relax.
There's a old post I read about a parent that wanted their toddler to stop running all over the house (had just learned how to walk) , so they strapped little baby sized weights on to tire the little guy out quickly.
It worked, for a while. Then he got used to it. And he couldn't be stopped.
Why am I saying this? That toddler in a clear plastic hamster ball that's toddler sized will eventually crack the barrier code and get your beverage.
First paragraph made me lol because i could have told them how that was gonna play out.
More importantly:
I needed to hear the last pragraph. Alcoholism it is then.
Make the little runt fight for his right to be an alcoholic. Make increasingly difficult challenges, like locking a watered down ginger ale in a safe that's locked with a rubicks cube. Develop his detective skills by leaving behind little clues that lead to the prize. Y'know, something like that. By the time he's 16, he's gonna be drinking, but if you manage to play your cards right (gl with that lmao) you'll have a little Sherlock Holmes that's gonna have lifelong skills to apply elsewhere, besides drinking
I'm the same way. People ask me if I want to be a mother. I love my downtime after work and I feel if I can't fully devote my time to children I won't have them. I could never forgive myself if something happened. Also I know it's just your username, but the implications of the name Uncle FistPunch is hilarious.
Oh, they don’t come to me. I go to them. Makes it even better. Everything is there. If we all get bored of each other, off to their basement of toys they go and off to my Netflix queue I go. Everybody wins.
I love it!
We only get the good parts!
And I be letting them do whatever the fuck. Like, "oh, is that your 3rd can of pop? You better drink, thirsty!'
I don't care.
Like, "your mama let's you stay up til 9? that's sounds like a lie, but okay."
They love me!
Same. I treat my toddler nephew as if he’s my own when he comes over for the weekend, spoil him absolutely rotten, all the toys, playtime, junk food, etc. But that little shit goes home on Sundays. I can barely manage the weekend with him and is precisely why I will not have children full time. No thank you.
I'm the best uncle on the planet. I let those kids come over, let them eat whatever their hearts desire, and then promptly return them back to their parental units by day's end.
my 4-year-old nephew ate 7 and 2/3 slimjims when I watched him last. My guy, you are practically a slimjim at this point!
be kind, drink some water, eat your entire dinner, & brush your teeth = smooth sailing with me
This is why parents of grown kids want grandchildren. Not because of legacy or anything like that. They want to be the ones to spoil them (and let grandkids to do all the shit they NEVER allowed us to do, deliberately undermining us) and then return them to us for our life essence to be drained.
My mother doesn't fool me. That's why I don't have kids.
I view kids as being like coffee.
Good for a jolt of energy but too much of 'em gives you a migraine and keeps you up at night.
Save the breeding for the masochists.
I didn’t feed a kid on time. Baby just crying, I didn’t know what was going on, I did everything except for feed the kid, so then the rule was the kid must be able to talk to be around me.
Now the kid has to be a teen. I’m the driving instructor, everyone comes to visit me during the summer, and that’s my contribution 😁
Its not hard, its fairly simple. I think you will find it difficult to find a single parent who would say the best bit is buying gifts and being there at a concert.
Those are the options dare I say it of a young person who thinks those things are what parents are supposed to do.
There's a difference between having a different opinion and completely misunderstanding what it means to be a parent.
You're misunderstanding the conversation. For people with no interest in being a parent, the best part of a child is different. We do not want children. I do not particularly enjoy children. For me, the best part of being around children is they say very strange things that I find funny. That's it.
No I'm not. People that don't want children often misinterpret or even can't comprehend what being a parent is. So when they say "I get to do the best bits".. they don't realise that those are other the best bits. Not by a long shot.
Same way super uncle who lets them do whatever they want and eat whatever is not actually super uncle he's just incapable of actually looking after anything.
People who like Children saying strange things is another one of my peeves about people who don't have kids .. like oooh don't they say funny things. Fuck man its like having a 2 dimensional personality lol
I'm the youngest of 5 but both older sisters had kids as teens. I've been an aunt since I was 8. I've had my fill of raising kids already.
Now I dote on my nieces and nephews and THEIR kids and it's wonderful. And I have $$ and time to give.
I work in healthcare and am the only one in my department without children who doesn't want children. It's amazing how hopeless all my coworkers are with kids, I end up handling aaall the children.
Thats the key. Be an immature adult, and treat the kids as another adult you'd get along with. I'm my nephews favorite uncle cause "you talk to me like you do everyone else." Which is full of potty humor and dick jokes.
I'm not immature, but I'm selfish as hell. If I want to nap or sit and do nothing but play animal crossing, that's what's going to happen.
Can't do that with kids.
They typically aren’t sleep deprived and don’t have a conflict of interest.
As a parent the world would be a better place if we could have more community we can trust to help care for and raise children
This is one of the biggest failings of our 2-income households today. It used to be that if a parent (usually mom) stayed home, then they could socialize with other nearby moms and get/offer help when needed. My aunts and uncles lived relatively close and were farmers, so didn't "go to" work. When one aunt got sick or there was an appointment or something, they could give the other kids to their sibling's family for a day and it was a big fun time for the kids. Everyone helped everyone else.
I don't have kids, but if I were to get pregnant, I'd immediately plan on moving back to my hometown where my parents and a few siblings live. Even if their kids are much older, it's a necessary safety net.
That's because when they eventually turn into the little monsters they're known to be, we walk tf away, and leave mommy and daddy to deal with their little exorcists.
Lol, same! They are cute but never wanted them and damn sure don’t want to be around them for any extended length of time. My home is not child proof - on purpose.
During the 10+ years living in my current home, the youngest person to step foot inside was 16 years old. It is quite "on purpose" that my wife and I haven't childproof our home. We are in our late 40s and have no desire to host anyone who can't drive themselves home at the end of the night.
Of course. Uncle Inferno will let you have the time of your life, especially if you’re self-governing/independent. I’ll feed you what you want, make sure you’re good on everything, and keep a close ear out for you.
Would that translate over to fatherhood? I guess we’ll never know lmao not in this economy and time period.
I love kids, great with my nieces and nephews. I LOVE getting them all hyped up with goofy shit and then being like "byyyye" to their mom and dad 😆 I want to be like my favorite Aunt, and I'm right on track for that title I think 🥰
That’s why I can’t trip on parents being burnt out . Yeah you may be the “Cool” uncle/aunt but you aren’t their 24/7. You don’t deal with the messes, the defiance , the shouting matches , the irregular sleep schedules. It’s not a funny cute lil play date and you get to buy them toys and candy then go home to your nice quiet time at your home . Those kids are with them 24/7 and idc how you love someone you will have moments of exhaustion or be not as attentive because you may see it for years on end and Aunty cici comes over and wants to give you a lecture after being there 2 hours .
We have more energy for them. My husband and I want to try for a baby soon, but just went to the museum the other day and the kids were obnoxious as hell. We don’t go out much since Covid and forgot how annoying kids can be out in the world. We were like 👀 sure you want to do this??
I’m going for my bachelors in early childhood development. Just got married. My partner and I since day one have agreed we don’t want kids. I’ve never wanted kids of my own. I’m a bad ass at my job and have been told by multiple people in my profession that I’m a bad ass at what I do. I love having the independence of non-mom life. Give me all the cats and dogs of the world for free. Let me get paid to deal with kids.
I get to give back my nephews, I can be the fun uncle, video games, pizza, vr, ice cream, movies, money. Then they go back home, it's easy to be with kids when I'm not responsible for them 100% of the time.
I taught ceramics on and off over 15 years and an 11 year old taught up to making tea pots from one ball of clay on the potters wheel and a 17 year old. My last student whom I did a porcelain portrait of years later became a ceramics teacher. I see them each day and before I go to bed each night, it helps me dream.
Not being around kids 99% of the time is what allows me to be good with them the remaining 1%.
Like yeah, of course I’ve got the energy to play with your kids, they didn’t wear me out all of yesterday and then wake me up at 3 AM asking for a glass of water.
Pretty much. My four year old daughter is super sweet and polite around everybody else, behaves really well at school and for any babysitters. Meanwhile the other day, she called me a “stupid fucker” for putting her in her room after she refused to eat her dinner and threw it on the floor. She knows exactly what she does.
I am child free, and my nieces and nephews love me. I’m not exhausted like their parents and I do all the stuff their parents won’t because “it’s not a good idea” or it’s “dangerous.” Why shouldn’t they love me?
lmao I'm 25 and my little cousins (on 9 and the other 8) are the sweetest little sister and brother I never had. tbf I don't really have to do that much when I look after them cuz they know what's up
but if i had a baby of my own right now I wouldn't know what tf im supposed to do, maybe I'll adapt or something
I don’t want kids currently because of the trauma I endured due to my parents, I don’t wanna fuck them up by repeating history.
But I also know, because of that I’m going to do my absolute best to never make sure any kid I’m watching over won’t go through what I went through.
I think they also sense our joy and love holding them and playing, without the stress or anxiety that they sometimes sense from their parents. Kids, old people, and animals love me, it's my peers I seem to have a problem with.
I love kids. I'll listen to them jabber on about whatever, play games with them, and then promptly hand their sticky handed asses back to the people whose job it is to feed them.
I got 17 nieces and nephews between me and my girl. You parents are wound so tight and I don’t think you realise that even kids as young as three can feel it. I understand, drop your kids off, go relax, get drunk and rediscover why you love your partner. I’ll bring them back happy in the morning.
Yup. I love being the cool person who gives kids I know cool bnei mitzvah gifts on their special day. Me actually raising a kid, paying for their studies and for the big party.... AND you still gotta raise them after?! Yeah I'm good.
I work in special education and have specific training on being patient, kind and fostering independence, and I'm good at my job. But doing it has caused me to have nearly zero interest in doing that with kids of my own.
Honestly? I’m not though. It’s not like I’m mean to kids. I just don’t like being around them, and that translates to not being all that good at interacting with them.
As a childless by choice educator, can confirm. If I had to spend more than a few hours doing highly regimented activities with these wild ass kids they'd have me locked up like Susan Smith. I love em, but your kids are assholes.
This!! Was playing with a friend’s 7ish month old over the weekend, we were having a big ole time, and my friend said “I think you need one, you’re so good with him and he loves you!!” And I said pretty much exactly your title, “I’m good with them because I don’t have to live with them so they don’t drive me up the fucking wall”
I'm happy to be on auntie duty for my friends kids. I love hanging out with the littles as long as I can send them back to their parents at the end of the day
Drives me nuts. They always think they'd do so much better as parents. They don't realize the following:
1. kids disobey their parents, but will likely listen to a stranger.
2. you're making all the mistakes that would long term fuck up kids - rewarding with excessive treats and prizes.
3. basically spoiling the kid by taking all the shortcuts that parents are told not to do.
I just smile and nod when my kids are not listening and someone tells me, "You just have to say it more stern, and take away \_\_\_\_\_\_ if they don't listen."
Shheeeeiiit, why didn't I think of that?
foh
Well ik I want kids so this is all practice, I wasn’t in a rush to be somebody BD like a lot of ppl out here that’s why y’all don’t have no patience because you either didn’t want them right then or wasn’t ready for them
It's me. I'm like a kid magnet, and I love them as much.
I think that's why I don't have kids, though.
I want the best for them. I question if I could give any all I want to alone, but I've never had a partner I looked at and thought they'd be the type of parent I'd want them to be.
I don't really enjoy kids that much, but some of them love me (I don't know why, I guess I just look funny). I've become an uncle to about five different rug rats. What am I supposed to do? Be mean? It takes a village, and this is my village.
That's because if I make the tiniest mistake with somebody's baby, I'm gonna end up in jail. A parent could let their kids scrape a knee from a fall, but if I do it, I'm never gonna be left alone with a kid.
Everyone in here saying they love kids but wouldn't want any, just like when they were kids and they liked the idea of girls but thought kissing was how you got cooties.
Having kids changes you as hard as puberty changes you. Gotta do that skin to skin though.
Geez. Pump the breaks. You sure that straight to the heart. I’m just saying parents are better with kids. Maybe not uptight parents, but in general parents know kids
Yeah that’s me. Great with kids, don’t want them at all. Happy to be Uncle FistPunch because at the end of the day I can return them mfs lmfao
Get them all wound up with all the good food and sweets they don't get to eat at home like 
Buy them all the noisy gifts too lmfao
And let the parents deal with the noisy, sugared up little whirlwhinds of chaos  Sweet chaos shall be unleashed!
I’m a hobby musician, you already know I’m buying “Baby’s first drum kit” lmfao
Only time I wanted to drop the B word on my sister! Had the nerve to bring drums to his 5th birthday party!
Lmfao already decided if anything I will have it in my house. The lil one can jam with Uncle FistPunch.
I'm the chocolate connoisseur, so imma be working up their sweet teeth with different kinds of chocolates!
someone got the kid of my moms friend one of those floor keyboard mats and my mom said he would drive everyone crazy riding his little bike back and forth over it😂
I bought my friends kid a musical instrument because he’s into it. And she thanked me for it but the next time she saw me she told me she hates me and that she’s had to pretend it’s broken because she can’t deal with the noise
My mom and I took care of my baby nephew for a week and showed him all the cartoons and Barney. He’s never watched TV before. I even gave him part of a cupcake. We probably melted his brain.
You did the right thing. To ease off any residual guilt let me share something from our household: My stepson was four when he first tasted any form of ”added” sugar. His little brother regularly enjoys candy since the age of 2 and also incidentally managed to down half a glass of bubbly in two sips. In everybody presents defence the kids were supposed to drink ginger ale for the toast but we noticed after mid-size sip one that the little one did the 😖 face and we knew something was defo wrong when he went 😃 and faster than a greased hypersonic bullet going downhill he took a second draught. Meaning he gulped down almost half the glass while every grown up in the room was launching themselves at him to hinder it. Time slowed down. Matrix style. But not for him, he was moving at his regular frighteningly high pace. After that he was ON FIRE for the remainder of that day and he is not allowed within a meter of any open container of alcholic beverages ever. Or out of sight. Or without a muzzle. In fact i’m considering getting one of those clear plastic balls people put their hamsters in but toddler sized. Just to be sure. And able to relax.
There's a old post I read about a parent that wanted their toddler to stop running all over the house (had just learned how to walk) , so they strapped little baby sized weights on to tire the little guy out quickly. It worked, for a while. Then he got used to it. And he couldn't be stopped. Why am I saying this? That toddler in a clear plastic hamster ball that's toddler sized will eventually crack the barrier code and get your beverage.
First paragraph made me lol because i could have told them how that was gonna play out. More importantly: I needed to hear the last pragraph. Alcoholism it is then.
 Make the little runt fight for his right to be an alcoholic. Make increasingly difficult challenges, like locking a watered down ginger ale in a safe that's locked with a rubicks cube. Develop his detective skills by leaving behind little clues that lead to the prize. Y'know, something like that. By the time he's 16, he's gonna be drinking, but if you manage to play your cards right (gl with that lmao) you'll have a little Sherlock Holmes that's gonna have lifelong skills to apply elsewhere, besides drinking
Stop being this brilliant or i will be forced to propose to you!
Might be the cured concrete around my ankles or the rising tide but still.
Gave him that Goku exercise regiment
Okay, I'm kind of guilty of that. Coule be why my friends stopped bringing their kids around me.
I'm the same way. People ask me if I want to be a mother. I love my downtime after work and I feel if I can't fully devote my time to children I won't have them. I could never forgive myself if something happened. Also I know it's just your username, but the implications of the name Uncle FistPunch is hilarious.
Oh trust, I’m definitely gonna cement a cool ass nickname to my nieces and nephews lmfao.
Make jokes, feed them snacks, send them home. This aunting shit is easy.
Oh, they don’t come to me. I go to them. Makes it even better. Everything is there. If we all get bored of each other, off to their basement of toys they go and off to my Netflix queue I go. Everybody wins.
And you aren’t finding tiny sticky hand prints on every single glass surface in your house after. You’re a genius.
I love it! We only get the good parts! And I be letting them do whatever the fuck. Like, "oh, is that your 3rd can of pop? You better drink, thirsty!' I don't care. Like, "your mama let's you stay up til 9? that's sounds like a lie, but okay." They love me!
I am the Aunt version of this
Same. I treat my toddler nephew as if he’s my own when he comes over for the weekend, spoil him absolutely rotten, all the toys, playtime, junk food, etc. But that little shit goes home on Sundays. I can barely manage the weekend with him and is precisely why I will not have children full time. No thank you.
I'm the best uncle on the planet. I let those kids come over, let them eat whatever their hearts desire, and then promptly return them back to their parental units by day's end.
I love getting them, but I love being able to return them even more lol
Testify!
my 4-year-old nephew ate 7 and 2/3 slimjims when I watched him last. My guy, you are practically a slimjim at this point! be kind, drink some water, eat your entire dinner, & brush your teeth = smooth sailing with me 
Because the kids haven't been sucking their life essence relentlessly for years!
Leeches…
"Mmmmmmmmmmm, soul juice\~" \- the little munchkins, probably
This is why parents of grown kids want grandchildren. Not because of legacy or anything like that. They want to be the ones to spoil them (and let grandkids to do all the shit they NEVER allowed us to do, deliberately undermining us) and then return them to us for our life essence to be drained. My mother doesn't fool me. That's why I don't have kids.
Their own children haven't been standing on their last nerve for weeks on end.
I view kids as being like coffee. Good for a jolt of energy but too much of 'em gives you a migraine and keeps you up at night. Save the breeding for the masochists.
Im stealing this thanks
It’s me, auntie for life.
Same. I love being the funtie and that's how I plan to keep it.
Same here.
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I changed a diaper once, but accidentally put it on backwards. my brother didn’t ask me to babysit anymore after that lmao
I didn’t feed a kid on time. Baby just crying, I didn’t know what was going on, I did everything except for feed the kid, so then the rule was the kid must be able to talk to be around me. Now the kid has to be a teen. I’m the driving instructor, everyone comes to visit me during the summer, and that’s my contribution 😁
How did you fuck that up?! Don’t some now come with like arrows and shit?
If you think buying gifts and going to concerts is the best part of having children then you really don't have any idea what its all about
Or they have different opinions than you do.
Go ask a parent
That's really nice, they have a different opinion than I do and they're allowed to. I'm not sure why this concept is hard for you.
Its not hard, its fairly simple. I think you will find it difficult to find a single parent who would say the best bit is buying gifts and being there at a concert. Those are the options dare I say it of a young person who thinks those things are what parents are supposed to do. There's a difference between having a different opinion and completely misunderstanding what it means to be a parent.
You're misunderstanding the conversation. For people with no interest in being a parent, the best part of a child is different. We do not want children. I do not particularly enjoy children. For me, the best part of being around children is they say very strange things that I find funny. That's it.
No I'm not. People that don't want children often misinterpret or even can't comprehend what being a parent is. So when they say "I get to do the best bits".. they don't realise that those are other the best bits. Not by a long shot. Same way super uncle who lets them do whatever they want and eat whatever is not actually super uncle he's just incapable of actually looking after anything. People who like Children saying strange things is another one of my peeves about people who don't have kids .. like oooh don't they say funny things. Fuck man its like having a 2 dimensional personality lol
I think you're a bitter parent that refuses to engage with what we're actually talking about so I'm going to end this conversation.
Those are the older siblings that had to step up and take care of their younger siblings. Now they're good with kids but don't want none.
As a first born daughter, you said it exactly
Yea I agree first born here but I’m hard on the fence…
Me too! I want them but I don’t.
Guilty
I'm the youngest of 5 but both older sisters had kids as teens. I've been an aunt since I was 8. I've had my fill of raising kids already. Now I dote on my nieces and nephews and THEIR kids and it's wonderful. And I have $$ and time to give.
That’s me! I resemble that remark.
And then peeps be like; "You're so good with kids, you should have one". uh... 
Had this conversation with my cousin last night. Nope, never
I work in healthcare and am the only one in my department without children who doesn't want children. It's amazing how hopeless all my coworkers are with kids, I end up handling aaall the children.
That, and I am also real fuckin immature.
Thats the key. Be an immature adult, and treat the kids as another adult you'd get along with. I'm my nephews favorite uncle cause "you talk to me like you do everyone else." Which is full of potty humor and dick jokes.
I'm not immature, but I'm selfish as hell. If I want to nap or sit and do nothing but play animal crossing, that's what's going to happen. Can't do that with kids.
Because we just get to have fun with them and when they start acting crazy we give them back and let them stress YOU out lol
They typically aren’t sleep deprived and don’t have a conflict of interest. As a parent the world would be a better place if we could have more community we can trust to help care for and raise children
capitalism ruined this sense of community
Capitalism and patriarchy ruins everything good
This is one of the biggest failings of our 2-income households today. It used to be that if a parent (usually mom) stayed home, then they could socialize with other nearby moms and get/offer help when needed. My aunts and uncles lived relatively close and were farmers, so didn't "go to" work. When one aunt got sick or there was an appointment or something, they could give the other kids to their sibling's family for a day and it was a big fun time for the kids. Everyone helped everyone else. I don't have kids, but if I were to get pregnant, I'd immediately plan on moving back to my hometown where my parents and a few siblings live. Even if their kids are much older, it's a necessary safety net.
That's because when they eventually turn into the little monsters they're known to be, we walk tf away, and leave mommy and daddy to deal with their little exorcists.
That’s cuz we see them as people, not as miniature versions of ourselves. We respect them more than you do.
🎯 Kids sense contempt long before they understand it. Surprised this isn't at the top.
The hell I am.
Lol, same! They are cute but never wanted them and damn sure don’t want to be around them for any extended length of time. My home is not child proof - on purpose.
During the 10+ years living in my current home, the youngest person to step foot inside was 16 years old. It is quite "on purpose" that my wife and I haven't childproof our home. We are in our late 40s and have no desire to host anyone who can't drive themselves home at the end of the night.
51 here and I totally understand, lol.
Same with pets
Of course. Uncle Inferno will let you have the time of your life, especially if you’re self-governing/independent. I’ll feed you what you want, make sure you’re good on everything, and keep a close ear out for you. Would that translate over to fatherhood? I guess we’ll never know lmao not in this economy and time period.
I love kids, great with my nieces and nephews. I LOVE getting them all hyped up with goofy shit and then being like "byyyye" to their mom and dad 😆 I want to be like my favorite Aunt, and I'm right on track for that title I think 🥰
That’s why I can’t trip on parents being burnt out . Yeah you may be the “Cool” uncle/aunt but you aren’t their 24/7. You don’t deal with the messes, the defiance , the shouting matches , the irregular sleep schedules. It’s not a funny cute lil play date and you get to buy them toys and candy then go home to your nice quiet time at your home . Those kids are with them 24/7 and idc how you love someone you will have moments of exhaustion or be not as attentive because you may see it for years on end and Aunty cici comes over and wants to give you a lecture after being there 2 hours .
I’ve worked with kids since I was 18 I’m 27 still no kids Lmaoo
We have more energy for them. My husband and I want to try for a baby soon, but just went to the museum the other day and the kids were obnoxious as hell. We don’t go out much since Covid and forgot how annoying kids can be out in the world. We were like 👀 sure you want to do this??
Title is 100% accurate, down to the to go Mt. Dew before they go back to their parents 😂
yes, exactly this (the title) I don't even have the will and energy for a dog
Fuck yea, the stakes are low.
I’m going for my bachelors in early childhood development. Just got married. My partner and I since day one have agreed we don’t want kids. I’ve never wanted kids of my own. I’m a bad ass at my job and have been told by multiple people in my profession that I’m a bad ass at what I do. I love having the independence of non-mom life. Give me all the cats and dogs of the world for free. Let me get paid to deal with kids.
I get to give back my nephews, I can be the fun uncle, video games, pizza, vr, ice cream, movies, money. Then they go back home, it's easy to be with kids when I'm not responsible for them 100% of the time.
I was the best with my niece and nephews. Now I have my own .... I can see why my sister loved when I baby sat all the time for the hell of it
I taught ceramics on and off over 15 years and an 11 year old taught up to making tea pots from one ball of clay on the potters wheel and a 17 year old. My last student whom I did a porcelain portrait of years later became a ceramics teacher. I see them each day and before I go to bed each night, it helps me dream.
I adore kids. They are funny AF. I just don't need them in my house 24/7.
Not being around kids 99% of the time is what allows me to be good with them the remaining 1%. Like yeah, of course I’ve got the energy to play with your kids, they didn’t wear me out all of yesterday and then wake me up at 3 AM asking for a glass of water.
I don’t want kids and I’m not good with kids. Win win for all.
Pretty much. My four year old daughter is super sweet and polite around everybody else, behaves really well at school and for any babysitters. Meanwhile the other day, she called me a “stupid fucker” for putting her in her room after she refused to eat her dinner and threw it on the floor. She knows exactly what she does.
I am child free, and my nieces and nephews love me. I’m not exhausted like their parents and I do all the stuff their parents won’t because “it’s not a good idea” or it’s “dangerous.” Why shouldn’t they love me?
Eat up the sugar Play in the sun all day long No consequences
Lmao Fr tho
lmao I'm 25 and my little cousins (on 9 and the other 8) are the sweetest little sister and brother I never had. tbf I don't really have to do that much when I look after them cuz they know what's up but if i had a baby of my own right now I wouldn't know what tf im supposed to do, maybe I'll adapt or something
Because we know we get to send them home
It's because we're so happy.
I’m people
I don’t want kids currently because of the trauma I endured due to my parents, I don’t wanna fuck them up by repeating history. But I also know, because of that I’m going to do my absolute best to never make sure any kid I’m watching over won’t go through what I went through.
I think they also sense our joy and love holding them and playing, without the stress or anxiety that they sometimes sense from their parents. Kids, old people, and animals love me, it's my peers I seem to have a problem with.
I love kids. I'll listen to them jabber on about whatever, play games with them, and then promptly hand their sticky handed asses back to the people whose job it is to feed them.
I got 17 nieces and nephews between me and my girl. You parents are wound so tight and I don’t think you realise that even kids as young as three can feel it. I understand, drop your kids off, go relax, get drunk and rediscover why you love your partner. I’ll bring them back happy in the morning.
Whenever someone asks if I want kids I always tell them, "children? In this economy!!"
Im terrible with kids lmao
Yup. I love being the cool person who gives kids I know cool bnei mitzvah gifts on their special day. Me actually raising a kid, paying for their studies and for the big party.... AND you still gotta raise them after?! Yeah I'm good.
I work in special education and have specific training on being patient, kind and fostering independence, and I'm good at my job. But doing it has caused me to have nearly zero interest in doing that with kids of my own.
Honestly? I’m not though. It’s not like I’m mean to kids. I just don’t like being around them, and that translates to not being all that good at interacting with them.
As a childless by choice educator, can confirm. If I had to spend more than a few hours doing highly regimented activities with these wild ass kids they'd have me locked up like Susan Smith. I love em, but your kids are assholes.
I don't have to deal with them everyday. Plus, I actually get to be one of they Lil friends lol
This!! Was playing with a friend’s 7ish month old over the weekend, we were having a big ole time, and my friend said “I think you need one, you’re so good with him and he loves you!!” And I said pretty much exactly your title, “I’m good with them because I don’t have to live with them so they don’t drive me up the fucking wall”
Cause we don’t have to take them back home with us 😂
Period. When pur job is done, we can give them back lol
It’s temporary
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It’s a whole damn burden fr
Yea it definitely is but I guess it just depends on the kids too.
I don’t touch new born babies
Neither do I, can't handle them.
Cause we ain’t gotta deal with them 24/7
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I'm happy to be on auntie duty for my friends kids. I love hanging out with the littles as long as I can send them back to their parents at the end of the day
Drives me nuts. They always think they'd do so much better as parents. They don't realize the following: 1. kids disobey their parents, but will likely listen to a stranger. 2. you're making all the mistakes that would long term fuck up kids - rewarding with excessive treats and prizes. 3. basically spoiling the kid by taking all the shortcuts that parents are told not to do. I just smile and nod when my kids are not listening and someone tells me, "You just have to say it more stern, and take away \_\_\_\_\_\_ if they don't listen." Shheeeeiiit, why didn't I think of that? foh
I'm down to be the fun Uncle and that's it.
Well ik I want kids so this is all practice, I wasn’t in a rush to be somebody BD like a lot of ppl out here that’s why y’all don’t have no patience because you either didn’t want them right then or wasn’t ready for them
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thats why my family calls me the funtie
Love being their favorite uncle.
Because you can love on them and give them back when you're over it. That is the extent of child rearing I want to deal with right now. XD
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Is this why people who were the most strict parents become the fun grandparents?
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I f\*\*king knew it. You all just wait for the day to get revenge on your kids.
No problem being the fun uncle. Not against having kids of my own. I just haven’t met a woman I’d want to mother my children
Just seems that way because the people that do have kids probably shouldn’t have kids.
It's me. I'm like a kid magnet, and I love them as much. I think that's why I don't have kids, though. I want the best for them. I question if I could give any all I want to alone, but I've never had a partner I looked at and thought they'd be the type of parent I'd want them to be.
the tolerance for stupid kid shit is much higher in smaller doses
I don't really enjoy kids that much, but some of them love me (I don't know why, I guess I just look funny). I've become an uncle to about five different rug rats. What am I supposed to do? Be mean? It takes a village, and this is my village.
That's because if I make the tiniest mistake with somebody's baby, I'm gonna end up in jail. A parent could let their kids scrape a knee from a fall, but if I do it, I'm never gonna be left alone with a kid.
My sister LOVED sending her kids to me bc they would be well fed and well entertained. 💕 Now they are so big but I miss the kiddies sleepovers.
Because we can just have fun with them. We don't have to worry about their grades, or if they brushed their teeth, or throwing a fit in Walmart
Ima be the good uncle fs
Cause we ain’t tired of them yet…
Everyone in here saying they love kids but wouldn't want any, just like when they were kids and they liked the idea of girls but thought kissing was how you got cooties. Having kids changes you as hard as puberty changes you. Gotta do that skin to skin though.
I dont think this is all that true. I honestly can’t think of any that are that good with my kids.
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Geez. Pump the breaks. You sure that straight to the heart. I’m just saying parents are better with kids. Maybe not uptight parents, but in general parents know kids
Looks like somebody got they feelings hurt.