Oddbean new post about login | logout Kids are such a blessing. It's unreal. If you don't have any, get to it. It should be your top priority.
Life with kids is so much sweeter!! 💜
It is. Raising kids helps us mature, not just as parents, but as individuals, as well. Just another beautiful thing about raising kids. 🫂😎
You could also state, people without kids are mentaly still kids themselves.
Absolutely. Leading and teaching children encourages us to level up and strive to be the best we can so we can then help them attain their best. While I don’t have children of my own YET, I very much look forward to that day and in the meantime I have the opportunity to help raise my niece and nephew!
Best thing you'll ever do. Life changing
Sounds like cope.
Sounds like you're retarded
You gonna give those kids that sort of education?
We will be homeschooling our kids. I'm an engineer and my wife is an English teacher with a bachelor's in English.
You actually sound like the unusual case where homeschooling is a good idea. More power to you.
Homeschooling with no education or skills is better than sending your kids to government propoganda machines.
Ooof. I thought you were smart for a second.
I’m 22 now and I cannot wait to start my family. The only thing that I foresee being difficult is knowing when I’m financially ready to have a child and then how many am I actually able to support. Here’s hoping that #Bitcoin does what we all believe that it will because I want a large family.
Make sure you have 2 Bitcoin per kid first.
Lol if you still think you need a certain amount of money before having kids, you still don't get it.
I have 3 kids. I made sure I was able to support them growing up before I had them. Bitcoin didn't exist back then, but gold and silver worked well. Smartest decision I ever made. It led to a stress free (mostly) financial environment for us parents, which in turn led to us to the ability to raise healthy, smart, low time preference kids that turned into even better adults who stack stats.
You can instill low time preference and be poor at the same time. Actually probably easier to instill low time preference if you're poor. Being poor with kids is still better than being poor with no kids.
I would not have nor would I recommend having kids if you are or think you will be poor. I know many who are in that boat and they are miserable 80% of the time and happy in love the other 20% of the time. That's not a ratio I would volunteer for. Get you financial life in order first and then have kids. Work you ass off to get there and then keep working hard to maintain it. If I can do it, anybody can.
i waited a bit & now wish i didn't/would rather have that to do over blessmymess!
I (we, mom and dad) worked our asses off and then at 26 had our first kid when we knew we were strong financially. We got stronger and had another kid. We got stronger again and had another kid. Then I got a vasectomy.
Religion is a good thing
How can religion be a good thing when it has been scientifically proven that it makes children under some religion (even if it's unorganized) 1. mean spirited? 2. divisive? 3. more likely to shove things down people's throats? 4. disrespect other views and be closed minded? That is what I don't understand nowadays.
How can religion be a good thing when it has been scientifically proven that it makes children under some religion (even if it's unorganized) 1. mean spirited? 2. divisive? 3. more likely to shove things down people's throats? 4. disrespect other views and be closed minded? That is what I don't understand nowadays.
@Nëïgsëndöïg Unused Respectfully, and out of curiosity, which scientific (report??) are you referring to? I will agree that certain religions are significantly less equitable than others (Satanism comes to mind as probably the extreme). That being said, for me it isn’t about religion. It’s about relationship. That’s why for me, I believe Christianity (going back to ancient Judaism and being consecrated via Jesus Christ) is the perfect representation of relationship. A God, whom loved His people…His creation so much; that He gave us free will so that we might choose to love Him instead of being forced to. And when after several acts of disobedience, He sent His Son Jesus to die in our place so that we didn’t have to…. And upon Jesus’ resurrection, death would be conquered and we would be reconciled unto our Father God. —- So…it’s about relationship…the heart, head, and life change that makes us WANT to be near God and commune with His instead of following a bunch of rules (religion) in order to gain His favor. That’s the biggest misunderstanding about Christianity. We have always been in God’s favor, He has always been chasing after us…to reconcile with us…it’s simply that in our humanness we are aweful at it 🤪 so He made a substitution…a sacrifice of His own, so that we might be with Him once and for all, forever. That’s relationship, not religion. —- Hope this helps you understand my perspective at least. I appreciate you!
The relationship part I do agree with. Most, if not all religions, breed the type of negative behaviors I described from what I've read. For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513768/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2131892 Or this Reddit post (from what I could find): https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/8sj600/cmv_it_is_unethical_to_teach_religion_to_kids/ Or this report, which was retracted for some odd reason (still a possibly good read): https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(15)01167-7.pdf
I’ll go over these when I can (probably next week) and get back to you. Thanks for sharing .