Comments on: When more is never enough…

By: Childfreeee

Childfreeee — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:38:29 +0000

I honestly don’t know how anyone can afford to have kids in these times especially when they are spending so much money on frivolous stuff as you described. Every once in awhile I take a niece or nephew out for the day and no matter what we do, I end up blowing at least $50. Can you imagine taking a family of 4 out?

By: Mel

Mel — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:38:47 +0000

Dorian: Completely agree. I remember going to school with kids who lived close enough to walk or ride their bikes to school. I, like a lot of others, rode the school bus. However, it seems like these days, these options are out of the question for doting parents. Even if they live within walking/biking distance or have a bus available, these parents INSIST on driving their kids to school. And I know this is the clichéd “old person’s” adage but the school bus didn’t drop all of us off at our doorsteps either. We actually had to walk to a common bus stop. *sigh* I’m only 25, and I’ve already said that. Sad…

Stepher: Thanks! It’s something that’s been bugging me for a while and I knew others felt the same.

FB: Ah yes, when we ate out or got fast food, it was a treat, not the norm. These days you have commercials like KFC that suggest the only way to have a family dinner is to pick up something deep fried. No wonder there’s a childhood obesity problem. Also, my mom didn’t fix a separate meal for each of us. We ate what she cooked or we didn’t eat at all. One of the many lessons she used to teach us that the world does not revolve around us.

By: Fabulously Broke

Fabulously Broke — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:36:12 +0000

Agreed. It’s irritating. Or when they use kids as an excuse not to cook homemade food at home — total BS. You cook once, eat for the entire week.

I’d just choose food over TV, that’s all.

AM linking this

By: stepher

stepher — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:28:42 +0000

A-freaking-MEN.

Bravo!!!

By: Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:01:34 +0000

I really hear what you are saying. I know families who were in debt before having children, but instead of clearing it or at least trying to, they go ahead, have a troop of kids and then double or triple their debt because they *need* that huge car, and they *need* those designer baby clothes and they *need* to take them abroad on expensive trips.

When I was a kid, I grew up with seven of us in the house, I shared a room – we didn’t mind. We had a modest car, we ate and spent sensibly. We also walked to places. In Britain at least, a lot of people live within a sensible walking distance of the school that their kids go to, or the nearest park that they frequent. Do they walk there? Of course not! Even if people live a hundred metres from the school gate, they won’t walk their kids, they’ll get in their huge hummer or BMW X5 and drive them there, then drive back home. It’s one of these things that really riles me.