I have had occasion to co-babysit a couple of times over the past two weeks and I must say I am not ready to have kids just yet. I truly do enjoy them but do they ever eat up your time and energy. Great for an evening, not something I want to build my daily life around just yet. Even so, it was a good reminder of how sad it is to go through life never interacting with anyone younger than eighteen.
It is way to easy for me to walk around Portland and only see adults. Few of my friends have kids at this point and it strikes me as a major anomaly in human society to see this kind of segmentation. Have there been other cultures where one could go this long without taking some part in raising or teaching kids?
I want to write more on this, and better, but I have to work. Sorry I have fallen off after a month of diligence here. I intend to get back to it starting now!
I remember hearing once that only 1 in 5 families in Portland proper has children. (This may be horribly wrong!)
ReplyDeleteI guess if you think about it, it makes sense. All of the kids have moved to the suburbs, or to sunnier parts of the country. Sad, so sad.
Thanks for being my babysitting wing man.
And, look at you! 3/4 of the way to your goal.
ReplyDeleteIt was my pleasure! It is much easier when the kids are such wonderful specimens.
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