another angry rant about out-of-control children
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Flexichick wrote: KM - The only non-family neighborhoods I know of are senior homes.
Well you can't ESCAPE children by any means (nor would I hope you want to since that is discrimination and a lot of kids are great) but there are neighborhoods where it isn't predominantly families. Park Slope is continually referred to as a "family" neighborhood in all the media. Red Hook seems to have less families to me. I am sure there are more inBrooklyn. I have friends lliving in Chelsea (in commercial space) without a kid to be seen on most days.
Anyway, not that i think single child-free people should leave the neighborhood because I think neighborhoods should be integrated with all kinds of people and lifestyles. But that does mean live and let live. -
Rose wrote: Because yeah, in my day, we were all quiet and well-behaved at all times. When we were toddlers, we never threw tantrums, in fact we were never allowed out of the house at all. When we were teenagers, we never annoyed the adults around us by being noisy and obnoxious. We were model citizens from infancy. But today's kids, wow, they are really awful.
I hate to repeat myself in this merry-go-round, but fwiw ... I'm probably completely atypical here because a) I was born in 1957 and b) I have always been very quiet. But yeah, I was in fact a very well-behaved kid, and never went anywhere besides the grocery store, where I sat in the baby seat in the grocery cart. When I was a teenager I was sullen at home and very quiet and shy in public. I'm not saying these are good things, mind you - I just take issue with the assumption that people aren't remembering their own childhoods correctly. -
kensingtonmom wrote: Park Slope is continually referred to as a "family" neighborhood in all the media. Red Hook seems to have less families to me. I am sure there are more inBrooklyn. I have friends lliving in Chelsea (in commercial space) without a kid to be seen on most days.
I love Park Slope. I sure as hell don't want to live in Red Hook, and I sure can't afford Chelsea. I don't have a problem with children, or families. Just bad behavior. Oh, and I also really hate the post office here, because they're always losing things, and the stupid postal carrier who crushes all my mail. But I'm not going to move to Red Hook over it. -
laura wrote: [quote=kensingtonmom]Park Slope is continually referred to as a "family" neighborhood in all the media. Red Hook seems to have less families to me. I am sure there are more inBrooklyn. I have friends lliving in Chelsea (in commercial space) without a kid to be seen on most days.
I love Park Slope. I sure as hell don't want to live in Red Hook, and I sure can't afford Chelsea. I don't have a problem with children, or families. Just bad behavior. Oh, and I also really hate the post office here, because they're always losing things, and the stupid postal carrier who crushes all my mail. But I'm not going to move to Red Hook over it.
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Ditto on all of it. I'd love to live in a space this big in the W. Village, but that's not gonna happen.
I've been here 10 years....it was popular then, but not THIS popular.
Even still, as Laura said, I love it here. I just don't like bad behaviour. -
I guess KM won't bring her kids to Chelsea or Red Hook by this logic.
As for train during rush hour v. when kids get out of school.......Adults don't (usually) travel in packs displaying such bad behaviour.
You can choose to confront an adult because they are responsible for their own actions. -
Flexichick wrote: I guess KM won't bring her kids to Chelsea or Red Hook by this logic.
Has an original idea been expressed here in two weeks?
As for train during rush hour v. when kids get out of school.......Adults don't (usually) travel in packs displaying such bad behaviour.
You can choose to confront an adult because they are responsible for their own actions. -
Commuter wrote: Has an original idea been expressed here in two weeks?
It's been waaaay longer than that. Stay away from it for a week or two and come back. You'll see. -
Commuter wrote: [quote=Flexichick]I guess KM won't bring her kids to Chelsea or Red Hook by this logic.
Has an original idea been expressed here in two weeks?
As for train during rush hour v. when kids get out of school.......Adults don't (usually) travel in packs displaying such bad behaviour.
You can choose to confront an adult because they are responsible for their own actions.
Nope.
Some combination of Sudafed + boredom led me to this train wreck.
Should we add your comments to the "original ideas"? -
MichaelKeys wrote: [quote=Commuter]Has an original idea been expressed here in two weeks?
It's been waaaay longer than that. Stay away from it for a week or two and come back. You'll see.
I've come to think of this thread as a round. "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream ..." -
laura, Flexichick, thank you so much! I guess I'm so used to people thinking I'm some kind of freak because I don't want kids. I mean I AM a freak but that's not the reason why.
I wanted to say thanks before but the thread was locked for a little while. From the posts I've read I think you guys are pretty awesome, thanks again! -
caseopele wrote: laura, Flexichick, thank you so much! I guess I'm so used to people thinking I'm some kind of freak because I don't want kids. I mean I AM a freak but that's not the reason why.
Well, Laura's cool, but me...not so much ;-) I wanted to say thanks before but the thread was locked for a little while. From the posts I've read I think you guys are pretty awesome, thanks again! -
Flexichick wrote: [quote=caseopele]laura, Flexichick, thank you so much! I guess I'm so used to people thinking I'm some kind of freak because I don't want kids. I mean I AM a freak but that's not the reason why.
Well, Laura's cool, but me...not so much ;-) I wanted to say thanks before but the thread was locked for a little while. From the posts I've read I think you guys are pretty awesome, thanks again!
Flexi is da bomb. 8) -
I'm getting sick of looking at that kid on the Daily Slope page.
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This thread jumped the shark about 3 pages ago.
MOD NOTE: the part of this discussion that involves David Brooks NYT op-ed on kids clothes has been moved to Anarchy In The Pre-K -
Carnivore, I think I'm in love with you
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kensingtonmom wrote:
This coming from a woman who had a melt-down about nicely dressed children. Hypocritical much?
Anyway, not that i think single child-free people should leave the neighborhood because I think neighborhoods should be integrated with all kinds of people and lifestyles. But that does mean live and let live. -
Anonymous wrote: [quote=kensingtonmom]
This coming from a woman who had a melt-down about nicely dressed children. Hypocritical much?
Anyway, not that i think single child-free people should leave the neighborhood because I think neighborhoods should be integrated with all kinds of people and lifestyles. But that does mean live and let live.
Hi guest who loves to pop in to critique Kensingtonmom on various threads--I didn't know I had such an avid reader.
I guess I am the opposite of David Brooks--he rants about parents dressing their kids in hip clothes and I rant about them dressing them in status symbol suburban brands. Actually being on the same continuum with David Brooks is a little scary to me. -
Hi, Kensingtonmom - if you didn't offer your unsolicited opinion on nearly everything, I wouldn't read so much of your... oh, let's call it writing.
BTW, you should check ISP addresses on people's responses to you. As another guest had mentioned, you have more than one 'fan.'
MOD NOTE: Guest has correctly assumed that these are discrete ISPs.
We appreciate you keeping it civil, folks. -
Wow. I went away for a week only to come back to find we've made it to page 5! I can't believe there is anything left to say! Guess I'll have to keep checking back now that I'm home. Sadly, at first glance, I failed to find any Innocent X sightings <sigh>. Hopefully, he'll rear his head and call us child-free folks names real soon!
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Instead of child-free how about "dependant-averse"
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It's a boring conversation.
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kensingtonmom wrote: being on the same continuum with David Brooks is a little scary to me.
reflect on this obervation often
roll a 20-sider for damage
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