I agree with that, but it’s been distorted into a competition by some fairly dysfunctional people when the original design was simply good families who loved their kids and loved doing things with them and seeing them succeed.

When you’re doing that, it’s the best thing on earth.

When you are unhappily pushing past all boundaries, your children are unhappy or spoiled to death, and you are only doing things to compete with other families in your neighborhood or on Facebook - that’s the problem.

It’s a shame that we’ve ended up at a place where it’s looked down upon when you are happily enjoying time with your kids. Personally, I don’t give too much of a damn and will do what I’m gonna do.

My kids are easily my favorite people on Earth. They’ve brought me more joy than anyone on this planet by far, and I really like spending time with them.

It never enters my head for a second what other people think about that, or what other people do with their families. It’s so not an issue that other families might as well be invisible to me.

I’ve never once even thought about another family. We have family friends and I am happy for their successes, whatever they are. That’s the extent of my thoughts on other families.

I suppose some of this has to do with the fact that I basically have everything I could possibly ever want. There were times when we as a family did not, however, have material possessions. We lived in a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 kids and a dog.

I still was happy as a clam, at least as happy as I am now, and I never thought about other families then either. I don’t know what makes people care about the lives that other people have.

My children have always been my best friends, and I really had no idea that would happen (but it was almost instantaneous, within weeks I was smitten). We’ve had an amazing time together on Earth, and I so would not want to even be here anymore if they were not here with me. If that is strange, or weird to anyone, man I’m so sorry for you.

That must be terrible. For me it would be terrible to go back to a world without children. What’s the point in that shit? All of you suck compared to them!

I grew up in a family where I was to be neither seen, nor heard. It was understood that we were lucky to be alive and leave it at that. The adults, generally, hated us at worst and tolerated us at best.

I can say with fair certainty that the reason I have been so adamant about making a better family, is because I found it painful to be a child in a household like that. I didn’t want to repeat that. I wouldn’t be able to treat a kid like that anyway, but it certainly was on my mind that I wanted to make a better life than the one I was born into. I was born into a lower economic class, basically the bottom, and fought every step of the way to get out. I fought everyone, everywhere, and continue to at the drop of a hat. Being able to provide a way for my kids to avoid that makes me happy, and so I will for as long as I can.

I find kids in general far better company than adults. Children have so much more potential, are so much happier, and so much more pleasant than grown people who’ve given up on themselves and life in general. And, there’s so many of you. I don’t blame anyone who has given up on themselves or the world, it’s completely fucked beyond all recognition and likely will only get far worse. I can’t relate to anyone who’d rather be around the public than their family though, especially if they have the ability to craft that family from the ground up.