I just watched a Nyquil commercial on TV with an ill man standing in a doorway telling someone (offscreen) he needs the day off. Cut to the person he's talking to: a baby standing in an crib. The text "Dads don't take days off" fills the screen. It's funny and true. To quote Dane Cook "It is so true, that's why it's funny, because, it's so true, ( Read more... )

Parents make such fun blogs about vacations before and after they have kids! Like this mother here, who realizes a vacation without her kids is nothing like a vacation before kids.( Blog under cut.... )

One of the reasons I'm childfree is I really, really, really, really don't want to deal with a little son/daughter carrying lice from another kid and the lice spread to me and I'd have to deep clean my house and treat our hair....the lice are all gone...eventually son/daughter carry a fresh group of lice from yet another kid...ugh. In another ( Read more... )

So for one of my online college classes, I'm taking Human Reproductive Biology. (Just for extra credits, You have to have somewhere around 10 other credit classes in order to graduate.)  I looked at some other students introductions, Most are older and have kids and the only one around my age is this 21 year old girl that has a two year old and is ( Read more... )

I came across this post on a science blog yesterday about how this science professor dad and his wife were suffering from sleep deprivation due to their second baby's crying. I have been sleeping rather fretfully the last few months, so I appreciate the chance of a long lie-in, and my husband would sleep 18 hours a day if he could! Therefore this ( Read more... )

( Some of you may find this animated gif disturbing (SFW) )

Science Confirms It: Whining Is The Most Annoying Sound EverFinally, empirical evidence has arrived that whining is one of the most annoying noises ever. (As if you needed proof ( Read more... )

I'm still very glad I have this LJ community to post things like this article to. I think the moomoos on my Facebook would have a shitfit if they saw me post it there (I get more actual content on LJ, anyway). The article kind of reminds me when someone vehemently denies being an addict or something.

Mom & Dad Kid Themselves Over the Joy of ( Read more... )

Well now, I just discovered another reason why I'm glad I'm childfree.

( Potentially squick-inducing description of stone babies )

 Because the world seems to think not wanting children is unnatural and I must, in some way, be wrong, I feel compelled to share these stories. Cut for length.

( Idiots and earrings. )