75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12

Re:75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime wi... by dalyons on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:05AM (#33257957)

Just don’t take it as a rule though - I had a kid late also and I don’t regret the camping, brunches, career and travel at all. Some are memories I’ll keep forever and all those experiences make me feel like I’ve had a fullish life already, which can make it easier to deal with the no-life of having kids :)

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Re:75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime wi... by dionidium on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:11AM (#33257994)

For sure. Maybe these anecdotes are useful; maybe not. I don't know. Everybody has to figure it out on their own, in the end.

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Re:75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime wi... by nmcfarl on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:33AM (#33261877)

There’s 1000 places in this conversation to say this, but I thought here would work. I too had a kid late and do not regret the camping, but wanted to say the no-life is time limited^, or can be if you are lucky.

My kid is now 9, and while a fancy brunch is beyond him, he can do a sit down sushi dinner. We've done a couple of international trips with him, and we've settled into a friend group with similar interests so we are constantly doing camping, backcountry backpacking, and in the winter skiing - all with him and his friends. It is pretty good, and certainly not a no-life.

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^ And we knew what we wanted, so even though many of the early trips where miserable, the kid can say he’s been backpacking and xc-skiing every year of his life.

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