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BlackFox
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Sep 19 2014, 2:21pm
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Do you have children?
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Yes or no?
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sauget.diblosio
Tol Eressea
Sep 19 2014, 2:48pm
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though i'm open to it if/when i meet the right person, but if it doesn't happen, i'm fine with that, too. I really like kids and enjoy being around them, but i don't have the 'burning desire' to have them like some do. If it happens, it happens.
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Arannir
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Sep 19 2014, 2:51pm
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But me and my better half hope to adopt in the foreseeable future.
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Sep 19 2014, 3:05pm
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Five. 2 girls 2 boys and the tie-breaker girl ages 22 to 10.
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Arwen's daughter
Half-elven
Sep 19 2014, 3:27pm
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No. Nor do I plan to in the future.
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I love my niece and nephew and my friend's kids. I love playing with them. I love seeing how they're growing up, each with his or her own distinct personality already. But I don't want any kids of my own.
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BlackFox
Half-elven
Sep 19 2014, 3:36pm
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Parenthood is not for me.
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arithmancer
Grey Havens
Sep 19 2014, 4:12pm
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Two sons, presently 9 and 11.
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DanielLB
Immortal
Sep 19 2014, 4:14pm
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Yes, since last Sunday - he's 5 days old. /
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Magpie
Immortal
Sep 19 2014, 4:15pm
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I'm sure you posted it... right? congrats, Daniel.
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Magpie
Immortal
Sep 19 2014, 4:16pm
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ages 31 and 28.
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Annael
Immortal
Sep 19 2014, 4:30pm
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I came across a bunch of quotes from childless women the other day. My favorite was from Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat Pray Love), who said "some women are meant to be mothers, some women are meant to be aunties, and some women should not be allowed within 10 feet of a child." I'm one of the aunties. I love being an auntie so much I have "adopted" several of my friends' children as honorary nieces & nephews. But me a mom? I'm a perfectionist and way too compulsive; I would have been a helicopter mom to the max, and from what I've seen that's NOT the way to raise a kid. Fortunately, I never really had the option; by the time I was in my late 20s I knew it couldn't happen, and I was okay with that. (Because by then I was an auntie, yay!).
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Sep 19 2014, 5:48pm
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Yes, though they're not children anymore.
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My son is 33 and my daughter is 29 <3
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Sep 19 2014, 5:49pm
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The world needs great aunties <3
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My church once requested that I sing a song for Mother's Day that wasn't about mothers specifically. I came up with one, about women who had passed their interests on to me. Here's the chorus: Heirlooms of the heart, generations gone Left to us their legacies, passed their treasures on. We can all be ancestors if we only pass them on. I have kids, but it's doubtful whether I will ever have grandkids, so I try to pass those treasures on to my students and other young people I know.
(This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on Sep 19 2014, 5:51pm)
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Elizabeth
Half-elven
Sep 19 2014, 6:30pm
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2 accidents, one "immaculate conception."
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In other words, contraception isn't perfect. I had 2 girls and a boy, all now over 50, and 4 grandkids distributed among them. I have been a much better mom to them as adults than I was when they were kids, but I'm a pretty good grandma.
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Riven Delve
Tol Eressea
Sep 19 2014, 6:47pm
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But honestly, I think I'm going to be a better grandma than a mother. This blundering around being a parent by the seat of my pants stuff is rough--I need more experience.
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Annael
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Sep 19 2014, 8:07pm
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someone asked me the other day if I regretted not having kids
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and I said "no, but I regret not being a grandparent!" He burst out laughing and said "yes, if only we could skip right to that stage!"
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Sep 19 2014, 8:24pm
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Welcome to the club, dad!
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acheron
Gondor
Sep 19 2014, 8:44pm
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a 3-year-old boy and a 10-month-old girl. We're not sure if we're done yet or not.
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Ethel Duath
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Sep 19 2014, 8:56pm
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19 year old girl and 27 year old son. No grandkids yet, but I did become an Aunt to twins last August--an intense joy in its own right! And I suddenly have all this wisdom to apply (to someone else's kids . . .).
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Ethel Duath
Half-elven
Sep 19 2014, 8:57pm
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You did slip that in there vey elegantly!
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Congratulations!! Hope it's going well so far.
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Eruvandi
Tol Eressea
Sep 19 2014, 9:03pm
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I don't have kids now and I won't until such time as I'm married someday in the future. I'm not picky about number or gender either. I'll love them all. Until then I'll happily lavish my cousin's two daughters with nice things that I knit and crochet.
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Riven Delve
Tol Eressea
Sep 19 2014, 10:07pm
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to do both at the same time, since my stepdaughter has two little ones, a boy four months old and a girl three years old now. It's kind of disorienting when we're with her family--I have an urge to spoil the little ones rotten but am brought back to reality by having to keep my own kids in line! But I'd like to think that if her family lived closer (they're 400 miles away), I'd be great at having fun with them and teaching them little things I was always too busy to do with my own kids at that age. And if my own children ever have kids, I'll have double the experience to bring to grandmothering!
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Ethel Duath
Half-elven
Sep 19 2014, 10:22pm
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to look forward to! Way forward to. I'll be close to 80 or so by then, most likely!
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