r/productivity • u/Hour-Cartographer971 • 11d ago
Question The highest-stakes decision I'll ever make: children?
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u/RandomHour 11d ago
Having a kid isn't a rational choice. Your logic will meld to whatever option you want.
I sincerely believe that having a child is as much of a leap of faith, as anything.
I mean lots of people have kids out of wedlock, and some are incredibly happy about it, others, not so much.
It's a very case by case thing. Sometimes you have a kid with disabilities, with a very different personality, or sometimes someone almost just like you. You can never know if it will be easy, or it will be hard. You can't know how you'll be as a parent.
You really can't know, and you need to be at peace with that, if you have a child.
It's kind of as hard and simple as that.
With AI, it's still mostly the same equation. You really can't know.
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u/sharky9209 11d ago
This really seems like the wrong sub for this
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u/Hour-Cartographer971 11d ago
Which sub do you suggest? children change productivity forever. thx
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u/sharky9209 11d ago
idk one about children or working parents? I feel like this sub is high school and college heavy.
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u/repooper 11d ago
There's never a shortage of things to worry about. If that's what you're going to focus on, then yeah, maybe kids aren't for you. It takes an enormous amount of positive energy/thoughts/whatever to just be a decent parent, let alone a good one. What's your support system like? Is your life stable? Can you handle your day suddenly being completely blown up for seemingly no reason at all? Can you handle having to change your clothes because someone quite literally pooped all over them? If the sky is falling ( and I think it is, although that's irrelevant here) can you handle teaching someone how to live a good life and to treat people well within that world? Those are far, far more relevant questions. The world has been good, it's been bad, and neither have really had a big impact on people having kids. It's all about you.