о детях (англ.)

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Тим Крейдер зажигает (англ.) в блоге NYTimes о своей холостяцкой бездетной жизни:

Most of my married friends now have children, the rewards of which appear to be exclusively intangible and, like the mysteries of some gnostic sect, incommunicable to outsiders. In fact it seems from the outside as if these people have joined a dubious cult: they claim to be much happier and more fulfilled than ever before, even though they live in conditions of appalling filth and degradation, deprived of the most basic freedoms and dignity, and owe unquestioning obedience to a capricious and demented master.

I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small, rude, incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff for the rest of my life. [Note to friends with children: I am referring to other people’s children, not to yours.]

Еще он в начале заметки забавно описывает себя как "... respected cartoonist, whose work is beloved by hundreds and has made me a thousandaire".

Comments

[silly_sad.livejournal.com]

слишком красноречиво и через то однобоко.
но в чём вы видите его неправоту?
он АБСОЛЮТНО прав!
(даже в такой форме) я ППКС.

[vaggie.livejournal.com]

да, как в том анекдоте: "вы дали абсолютно правильный и абсолютно бесполезный ответ" :)

[0qwerty0.livejournal.com]

at least one simple, really obvious logical error:
"a small, rude, incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff for the rest of my life."

the normal logical error of a person after adolescence and before mid-life crisis - he assumes things will not change. whereas, in fact,a great fun in kids is in seeing them change all the time. so:

small - for at most 14 years, and the further the less so;
rude - for about a year at 2 and for about 3-4 years at 12
incontinent - normally 0 till 3.
follows around - 1 till 5, decreasingly so.
screaming - on occasion, but really not all the time.

for the rest of my life - no, not really. unless you expect to die before your kid turns, like, 4.

and that's just a factual error.

[silly_sad.livejournal.com]

it turned me.
try to write your own bible. your talking skills are EXCELLENT.

[0qwerty0.livejournal.com]

are you pulling my leg here, mister?

[silly_sad.livejournal.com]

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?”