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[–] 96 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Parents bragging about their kids is really sweet actually. Just as long as its about each kid individually and not like some weird collectors complex

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  • [–] 86 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    "we're going for a boy this time around! Fingers crossed!"

    That shit always makes me think of card collecting or something.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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    In the ye olden times, we'd rejoice over a successful birth, but modern medical care means that preganancy and birth is at its least fatalistic.

    People had reasons to celebrate birth pre-1800s. Now, well...

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    It can be sweet, or it can be icky.

    If the parent likes the kid for who they are, and is just happy to have a great relationship with another independent human, that's great.

    But, sometimes the parents are obsessed with having a kid who they can mould in their own image. They insist, for example, that the kid become amazing at football, because they never made it as a football player but through their kid they can live their own dreams vicariously.

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    [–] 86 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Breedpilled kidmaxxer or however they call it now

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  • [–] 47 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Getting offspringmogged by a serial reproducer

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Why is this really Ooo-coded, something Finn would say in Adventure Time. Almost like we adopted the language of the apocalypse because we are experiencing an apocalyptic extinction of human life from war, soon to be nukes, and global warming

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  • [–] 83 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No no, go ahead and brag a little. It makes both of us happier about our different life choices.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Shoulda told him "Way to go, you and your wife have now doubled your replacement value. Now unless you're planning on losing half of them to plague, famine, and war, you're literally contributing to doubling the population density."

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    Don't have any kids, never wanted kids, zero regrets.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    Man, I thought I couldn't agree harder than the audiophile meme a few minutes ago. I was wrong.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not worth bragging when you only do the easy (and fun) part of making children....

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    The scary thing is that it really seems to be the case that having a kid changes your brain, at least for most people. People who weren't sure they wanted kids become completely different people who are absolutely obsessed with their kids.

    That's probably a good thing from an evolutionary point of view, but it's freakish to see it happen. It's also sometimes a tragedy when it doesn't happen and someone who was ambivalent about having kids is not thrilled with having a kid when it happens.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Don't worry about what will happen next, just keep going.

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