Comments on: Merry Christmas. Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays Childfree Readers

By: og217

og217 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:16:42 +0000

This was a wonderful Christmas for me! My husband’s kids didn’t come, and its been awesome. We moved to a different continent and finally a pleasant holiday season, without the horrid BOREDOM of children, their beeping gadgets, screeching voices and a general wet blanket on Christmas fun, drinks and sex. Yay for me! I think children ruin, not enhance Christmas. And everything else.

By: FreeWillMatters

FreeWillMatters — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:52:50 +0000

My Christmas wasn’t childfree by any means but it’s the first Christmas in two years where I’ve actually been home to visit friends and family so I’m grateful.

Kids don’t grasp the expense of gifts. My two friends here both have kids (either their own or their partner’s). We were talking about how one kid got a big action figure toy, and the girl piped up and said she got netbook (mini laptop) which was a “medium toy”. My friends automatically cried out, “That’s a very big toy! You could get loads of physically large toys for the same cost!” She gave a blank look and ran off to play with something else. I think the only way kids will realize how much things cost and the value of it is if parents really drill it into their heads at all ages, and then will need to expect it will take years to sink in. Raising kids must be so exhausting.

Being around the kids did do something wonderful for me though: made me really value my downtime when they weren’t around. So while my friends are exhausted and can’t wait till work resumes so they can get a break from the stress of the holidays, I can kick back and relax now Cheers!

By: childfreekey

childfreekey — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:37:53 +0000

I had a nice, childfree Christmas this year. But then, my family is only really my mam and dad, because we pretty much hate the rest of our family. Also, we’re all atheists, so yay! No religious BS from anyone either! My boyfriend’s cousin got a laptop, a dvd player, an iPhone and an iPod (wtf?). She’s 14, and has been caught drinking a bunch of times in the last two months. Drinking in the park, when she should’ve been in school. If I pulled that shit at her age, I’d be lucky to get a book for Christmas. Her parents aren’t exactly well off either…

By: Soldatka

Soldatka — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:06:23 +0000

Just recently I’ve been travelling a lot by train. And all the kids on the train seemed to have mobile-phone sized devices with extremely annoying beeping games on them. It must have cost their parents a packet…what’s wrong with the old-fashioned toys (which had the advantage of neither needing batteries or being noisy)? I wonder if the expense was appreciated…

By: flamencocat

flamencocat — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:07:40 +0000

I just watched the 1961 “Babes in Toyland” movie today (as a way of reliving my childhood, which CAN be done without kids of one’s own), and was just thinking about how kids today don’t play with the simple toys anymore, like the ones in that movie. Do they even know what a wooden soldier is? Or marbles? I teach Pre-K, and kids are asking for Wiis, Nintendo DS’es and I know a kindergartener who got a digital camera for Xmas! You mean these parents actually buy into the belief that they HAVE to buy expensive gifts at Christmas to show their love for their kids? Even in the bad economy? “I will give my daughter a great Christmas to show I love her, even if I’m pinching pennies.” WTF?

By: Lauren Cocilova

Lauren Cocilova — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:15:25 +0000

Luckily for us, the kids we spend the most time with (my sister-in-law’s four) are rather well-behaved and fun to be around. Still young enough to like pretty much everything you buy them, and old enough to like money, too. Easy peasy. I usually just shop at thinkgeek.com. youngexplorers.com, evolvems.com, maplelandmark.com, and book stores. That way, I can influence their brains while they think there’s getting presents. Muah-ah-ah-ah-ah!

Also luckily, we’ve been childfree long enough around the same people that they don’t bother us about it anymore. We get to enjoy the season, while silently judging everyone.

By: Lurker

Lurker — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:54:14 +0000

Children..Cant see why anyone wants them so much more during x-mas.

No bingo can convince me that parenthood is a bless. The truth is still written in the face of every parent.

Look forward to the peace and simply take a break from daily life.

Happy holidays!
-Scrouge..:)

By: marina

marina — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:29:40 +0000

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