OOTS #1225 - The Discussion Thread

[Grey_Wolf_c]

And this is why I fear I'll never be a good enough dad.

I don't fear that (well, parent), I depend on it. I will not be the one to call myself "good enough" and proceed to rest on my laurels. I can get away with that anywhere else, but when it comes to my child, I intend to continue to improve my parenting till the day I die.

Not gonna lie, I'm a bit put off by all this talk about how you aren't truly an adult (or even a good citizen with full moral standing) unless you have kids.

No-one has said either of those things?

The first might be in reference to my comment, and that was clearly not universal, but applying strictly to myself. Find your own damn way of growing up. Heck I even said that foisting kids on others will not work. The second is an utter misreading of Heinlein, whose point is that you can't force people to be moral, no matter what.

GW