Thinking of becoming a parent?

[orbital]

My biggest concern is best summed up by an expression I heard once from the mother of a friend. This woman has two daughters and a son. She said, 'With a son, you only have one penis to worry about. With a daughter, you have EVERY penis to worry about!'

<gulp>

Penis is not all that bad. Just make sure she takes precaution  0:)

[Greta]

My parents weren't especially interested in music, but they allowed me to pursue what I was drawn to.

Mine were but not really with formal training, but I heard my dad play guitar around the house since I was little and used to sing along. Piano lessons young were the biggest thing for me and a good teacher who emphasized theory and made all kinds of fun games out of learning.

What's funny is my dad and his brother, both very musically inclined, but my dad rock/blues and my uncle classical (choral). They each had one kid, and my cousin, though not musically inclined, is a football guy like my dad, and looks enough like him to get mistaken for my brother (I look like my mom). While I'm scarily like my uncle, at family gatherings we're always off by ourselves immersed in talking recordings and composers, he's an obsessive collector too with a room of LPs and books. We even have a particular affinity for the same composers usually, so we introduce a lot of new works to each other.

[Hector]

Girls are best.

Sweet, pretty little things, they are easy for the first 18 years and then they start asking for money.

Hey, but here's the good thing, you can throw them out at 18 because you are no longer, as a parent, responsible for them. Not that I would, mind you. 0:)

My youngest is currently trashing Australia. They will regret ever having let her in.

My eldest has just dumped her boyfriend. Why? He owns a BMW. I cannot afford to hire a BMW!

[M forever]

My eldest has just dumped her boyfriend. Why? He owns a BMW. I cannot afford to hire a BMW!

What does that mean?

[Mozart]

Is musical ability/taste inherited to a degree, or how much of it is environment?

Environment 100%

[Kullervo]

Girls are best.

Sweet, pretty little things, they are easy for the first 18 years and then they start asking for money.

Hey, but here's the good thing, you can throw them out at 18 because you are no longer, as a parent, responsible for them. Not that I would, mind you. 0:)

My youngest is currently trashing Australia. They will regret ever having let her in.

My eldest has just dumped her boyfriend. Why? He owns a BMW. I cannot afford to hire a BMW!

You remind me of Maurice Chevalier's character in Gigi... but creepier.

[маразм1]

I really wouldn't want my kid looking like me.  That would be very weird. 

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d18/marazm1/?action=view&current=gayspaceghost.jpg

[Kullervo]

Agreed. If I had a child, he'd probably end up looking like an unholy cross between Egon Schiele and Peter Lorre.

[knight66]

A French saying......A father is a banker provided by God.


Our parenthood was idyllic....until our son went to school and as he detested everything about school, he has not had an easy passage. The job prospects seem not to be good at the moment. I am hoping he can find something that fulfills him....but at 18, so many have no idea and just fall into whatever they can get.


So, a mixed experience here.


Mike

[karlhenning]

Well, that could just be good taste, Mike; there is so much to detest in school . . . .

[BorisG]

Use birth control!

[Lilas Pastia]

It's a girl !

My daughter had an ultrasound today. Everything seems to be ok.

[Novi]

It's a girl !

My daughter had an ultrasound today. Everything seems to be ok.

Congratulations, grandpa!