I joined the ranks of parents a bit over a year ago. It’s been terrifying, heart-wrenching, heart-melting, and wonderful, in turns and at the same time. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
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I for one (childless heathen, or is it genius? Depends on who you ask.) love your blog and wish you and your beautiful family nothing but the best.

PS – Should you ever start a PS tutorial page on your site, I’ll be your first student.

A) The Wonder Twins are adorable, despite The Shrieking and The Whining.

B) You kick Dave Barry’s ass in the written humor department on a regular basis. And that is coming from a Dave Barry fan! (Take that you troglodyte spawn!)

C) Balljuice? Seriously? Wow! That one caught me looking!

Your Grandad had it right. Downside of the Internet is the babbling extremist morons can now rant without stepping into the light of day. The upside? The rest of us get to enjoy the work and inner-workings of great, creative folks like yourself. May they dig many a hole… elsewhere!

I can’t speak for other childfree people here but I come to parent’s blogs to catch glimpses of a world I’m not part of. I visit many blogs written by people whose lives are vastly different from mine, and I do it out of curiosity and a desire to understand more about people that I don’t have much in common with. I just find it interesting.

As a childfree person, there are two things that I consider my greatest frustrations of being childfree. The first is the negative reactions I get from most parents. The second is the swarm of negative vitriolic name calling that many childfree use to “defend” themselves against it. How embarrassing.

Whatever happened to calm, honest, respectful discussion?

It’s a problem on both sides. I’m sure the childfree would be less bitter if the parents weren’t so damning in their judgements of us, yet the parents would have far less to judge us on if we didn’t respond so bitterly!

I guess what it comes down to is this: people in general are pretty stupid and not that great at understanding each other or accepting each other. Some of them have kids and some of them don’t, but they all need to spend a little time *really* thinking about what it is that makes them so unhappy/uncertain of their choices that they need to be so negative about other people’s.

I’m very happy to be childfree, even though it does cause some social issues and as the years go on, the price I pay for my freedom will only get higher. However, I’ve made my choice and I’m comfortable with it – so I don’t need to use words like “moo” and “baby rabies” and other tasteless terms to describe people who choose to live a different life to mine.

People say they only use those words to describe a certain “type” of parent, but I have a different word that encompasses judgemental parents and militant childfree all in one word: immature.

Some people are immature. Sorry you got caught up in it.

But I think someone got laid off and is now saying they retired.

However, all that navigation aside, I had to share with you what freaked me out the most upon discovering your blog. While checking out what were supposed to be your Ugly kids (which they are NOT btw, and balljuice is a term that should never be muttered by any human), I saw a picture of my dear friend who I’ve known long before blogging, Fairly Odd Mother, in your album of Boston BlogHer.

Small freaking blogosphere, isn’t it?? Keep up the bloggin’ and I’ll keep on readin’
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