Seriously almost all of my friends have kids now and no one has time to hang out anymore. This is bullshit and must stop!
Just make a commune where everyone helps take care of each others kids and life is easier.
I would be super down with that
See the movie wanderlust for instructions
That’s basically what it’s like in my town because of how large the traditional indigenous population is. Only real downside is that you never get a moment of peace because they view you as an accessible family member and will walk into your house without asking all the time.
As a maximally alienated white person with no family and few something social relations that sounds pretty nice.
We need to shut down these breeders until we can find out what the hell is going on
Don’t you want to be the bad influence that turns your friends kids to communism?
offer to babysit
Go hang out at their house and play with their kids
Signed,
-A Parent.Seconding this. I had kids earlier than most of my friends and we essentially got abandoned for years by them because they were really weird about so many aspects of the necessary changes we were making.
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Thanks I guess that explains years of gaslighting and ghosting instead of just talking to us since we were supposedly such good friends. We weren’t pushing them on anybody. We had a sitter. People just stopped inviting us.
The few friends that stuck with us just made some clear boundaries up front and we’ve been cool for over a decade. It’s not hard.
That blows. I’m not a huge fan of kids but playing the fun uncle for a few hours every now and then is pretty cool. It kinda sucks though when I go see a buddy I haven’t seen in a year and they have to deal with the kids till 8pm and then be in bed 10. I don’t work so I can hang out when ever but it can still be extremely hard to schedule things with parents. In another few years though I hope things will be easier, 8 years olds can entertain themselves enough to actually chill with your friends.
What if those babies are your little brothers or sisters, then do you wanna hang around with them?
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Heading over to do bong rips and watch the X-rated cut of RoboCop with your four year old rn
This is less of a dealbreaker for some people than you’d imagine as long as you’re not hot boxing the living room or blowing smoke in their face lol
No me and the little tyke would be trading rips on the back porch while he goes on the four year old equivalent of a hot couch guy tirade
I’ve gone outside or into the designated smoking room while hanging with friend’s kids and essentially was this. Tbf they were hot couch parents as well. Not bad at the job and the kid is pretty much an adult now and more well adjusted than her parents by a bit. They were old train hopping punx doing the best they could, but yknow the face tatted before it was acceptable were always around and stuff. It was joked about that she couldn’t really run away from home cause her folks knew everyone on the road
That’s awesome. Glad she turned out good.
She was sent home in elementary school for having wayyy too scary a haloween costume. Full blood soaked black metal look.
Goddamn it this kid is way cooler than any of us
We don’t deserve to hang out with her
“you wanna see something real fucked up, kid?”
I saw that dude get half-melted by toxic waste in Betamax when I was 4 and it is not at all why I didn’t turn out fine
See, you get to be the cool uncle instead of the boring parent
Edibles my guy.
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Good call. You can leave a one year old cat by itself for hours and still have time for friends. I try to convince my parent friends to do that with their kids but everyone seems to think its a bad idea.
I wish my friends would have kids! I want to be an aunt :ccc
My Most Adult friend has a son and that kid kicks ass and we can’t wait till he’s old enough to join us for DnD.
Easily done, I can barely take care of myself and the whole birth thing makes me think of chestbursters from Aliens, big scary nope.
God I’m in my mid-30’s and the idea of being responsible for a whole ass human being still terrifies me.
Incidentally this is also the reason I don’t date anymore…
I’m 35 myself,its more the pure body horror aspect first then all the horrors that I could never provide for them along with it. Maybe add some Eraserhead along with that Aliens.
no they need to stop having jobs
hell yeah
If you have a kid you can then arrange playdates for your kids, then you can hangout with your friends
this is the perfect opportunity to become the cool uncle though
make friends with the kids
i’m not anti-natalist, i’m pro-hanging with the boys
