As a new father, I highly recommend it.
As nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs says “you’re not a man until you have a child.”
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This is true
Nothing makes you grow up and mature like having to care for and provide for another human. A human that you helped create.
Love is defined by selfless sacrifices that benefit the loved. Parenting isn't the only way to learn and increase the capacity to love, but it's the most available/common one God gave us. The incentive schemes all fail because they don't address the root problem that society no longer seeing value or reward found through sacrifice or suffering offered on behalf of others. My 3 daughters require more than I knew I was capable of but return so much more. Worth it even when it doesn't like when we lost our first child.
Sidebar, but one of the funniest terms I’ve heard for kids is “sex receipts.”
Anyway, highly recommend.
Chidren seem to be mere fodder and leverage by courts and super states as levers and controls over a strong man with which they can bind. For the best interests of the children of course.
Agree...
It's a blessing, have many friends trying to have children without success.
And I also recommend more than one, having siblings is needed, early life is too easy without them.
It's fair to assume that men without kids are virgins. They have no proof of work 🤷
Honestly. It’s very true.
There goal is to do what you can to listen to all those who came before.
And yet we never do and then, to some degree or another, we always look back and think how we would do it all better as parents.
Or maybe that’s just me projecting. I have great young adult men and I’m very proud of how they’ve turned out.
Even still, I do look back on what I should have done better.
Walker white pill.
Stop giving me fomo….I will shoot my shot soon
Shooters gon’ shoot. #pewpew
Before my son turns 1yo: "this parenting thing is horrible. I don't get what all the fuss is about"
After my son turns 1yo: "Ah yeah, this is the best thing ever"
I feel this.
Agree. Real life started the day my first was born. Currently standing on 5, all girls and truly blessed.
100% true
My 3 children are my world and they have changed me for the better
Without them, I would not be the man I am today
Lets repopulate this beautiful world with lovely children and raise them to understand what is really valuable in life.
It can be a metric but it's not a measure