When to have children?
For years, there has been polemic about when to have children. There are a lot of different opinions. Mostly experts advise that it is better as soon as possible. There are experts who say it is never too late for children. I would like to express my opinion on that topic.
Have a baby at the age of 25
The ideal time to give birth is around the age of 25. I think in those years everything is going in your favor. Youth in the first place. You are young, you don't know what you are getting into. Until you realize what happened, I mean the baby, the baby has already grown. π Then another baby happens. like to say that is youth madness. Youth means that you can not sleep at night and not feel bad. I think that is the most important thing in taking care of the baby, that strength that does not depend on how physically strong you are but how young you are. At the age of 25, I could play 7 nights and go out with friends on the eighth night.
Have a baby at the age of 35
In this age, every person has already established habits, whether they want it or not. Just to consider work every day from Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is enough of an obligation, that if you do not sleep one night because of the baby, expect to be fired tomorrow. The baby's cold usually lasts for a few days, so you must make at least one mistake at work. If you are a surgeon, then it is better to quit. Because instead of a kidney, you can remove a liver. π
A baby like any baby wants to be just a baby. This means that if you have a baby, you are a baby shadow 24h. Usually people decide to have another child. That's where the hell I say begins. Here's what one day looks like, since I'm currently in that sauce. π
An older child jumps on my head while I work on a laptop. The baby spills coffee on papers that are very important for work. My wife cooks lunch and puts sugar instead of salt, because she hasn't slept. She breastfeeds a baby for two hours. I don't know where I have been for days, months, I don't know if it's day or night. I do three shifts as I like to say. I am at work in the morning, I look after the children in the afternoon, I am on duty at night. I look like a zombie. π
Have a baby at the age of 45
This is the time when one should think about retirement and not children. I believe that people who cannot have children do not think so. I'm talking about obligations first and foremost. Taking care of the baby is one big responsibility. The biggest! What scares me the most is that when a child needs parental attention the most, it has grandparents and not dad and mom. Once, in the park, I addressed the child and told him that his grandmother will help him. It turned out that the grandmother was actually the child's mother. A very unpleasant situation, but it is so. The child is playing football, you are already 60, 65 years old. In translation, you can barely walk, everything hurts and the child wants to be a child.
In the end, I would say that you need to do everything in its time. What do you think, do you agree with my theory?
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It is never too late. NowadayS some young people are so close to their parents and are not indipendent at all that sometimes it is not wise to have kids so young because of immaturity, it is not always the case of course. I thing the age between 27 and 37 is ideal but there are exceptions.