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The best advice I have heard from Married Couples with kids is to make sure you have a life apart from your children. Too often then marriage becomes about the kids and then when the kids leave there is no longer a reason for the marriage. Seems reasonable.
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Marc Clifton wrote: What would you have liked to have known before having children?
In my experience, I would have liked to have known a lot more about hormones.
I am much smarter now. 
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: I would have liked to have known a lot more about hormones.
Yours, or your kids? 
Marc
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Ha ha yeah well pregnant mother to be and post-partum depression hormones. They are pretty much thermonuclear in both style and content.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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How to fight fairly and picking when to fight!
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Marc Clifton wrote: For example, I would have liked to have had skills on surviving my marriage after my son was born.
This pretty much sums it up for me. In my case it's a daughter.
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Where they came from.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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That the time when they're small really does go by too fast. As much as I enjoy the amazing woman my daughter has become, I still miss the little girl.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I would have liked:
- to be reminded every few months that the relationship between me and the missues is really important
- to have realised early on that it is okay to ask people for help. People are adults, and it is totally up to them to say yes or not.
- to have realised that mental health is a serious issue, and should be investigated prior to children.
- to not take things like going for a walk with your lady for granted. You may not to get to do it for a few years.
- to be told exactly how gross children are. Answer: Very.
Even though they infuriate me regularly, I really do love having the kiddlings around
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I wish I had understood, when parents told me I would be "tired", that they didn't mean "tired". rather they meant sleep-deprived to the point of insanity.
I also wish I had been forced, at gunpoint if necessary, to attend a sleep clinic before The Boy(TM) was born!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I wish I'd known that my wife would give in to him, wouldn't discipline him, and wouldn't let me.
She also says, "mommies don't do that", about certain marital activities. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: She also says, "mommies don't do that", about certain marital activities.
My ex-wife, who got into channeling and ascension, one day told me that she did not want to do "certain marital activities" anymore because it prevented her spiritual development, and she was planning on ascending. As in, disappearing of the face of the earth.
Welcome to post-partum depression and its side-effects.
Marc
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Hi Marc,
Having reached 910-moons mileage on this meat-container, and not having (to my knowledge) quickened any eggs to embryo, even though I spent a lot of time going through the motions as if that was what life was really about ... what I would like to know is: why didn't I have any ?
I never said those magic words, "until diapers do us part."
Surviving a marriage after the children are born; yep, that's a psychodrama, but, how wonderful if the kids are old enough to present a ring, or take some part in the ceremony !
I've always thought it odd that people speak of "having" children, when it is clear to me that children have parents ... not the other way around.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: I've always thought it odd that people speak of "having" children, when it is clear to me that children have parents ... not the other way around.
Great reply, and it also reminds me that many, many parents that I know actually want to be parented by their children.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: What would you have liked to have known before having children
Just how fantastic they are, I would have had them sooner. 
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I want to post a link to a Calvin & Hobbes strip but I cannot find it.
I think it is the one after this one[^].
Calvin asks his father to see the book but gets told no-one is allowed to see it until they have become a father otherwise no-one would.
Or words to that effect.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Before I went camping, XP run 12 items update.
After surviving TX style downpour and retrurning home my XP DID NOT recognize ANY USB devices.
Turned it off and it wanted to download another "update".
After that , all USB are again recognized and working.
I feel MS needs to quit any XP "support" especially this kinds of updates NOW, immediately.
They need to work on Windoze 10.0!
Vaclav
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Vaclav_Sal wrote: I feel MS needs to quit any XP "support"
Then I've got some good news for you:
Support for Windows XP is ending on April 8, 2014.
After April 8, 2014, technical assistance for Windows XP will no longer be available, including automatic updates that help protect your PC. If you continue to use Windows XP, your computer might become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Vaclav_Sal wrote: They need to work on Windoze 10.0!
You're already using Windows 10.P
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Automatic Corruptdates they be.
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Recursion is very meta today.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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<noun> is very <adjective> today.
speramus in juniperus
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Good thought but as a programmer, I think you know it should be OTD<S> and not <S>OTD.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Of misusing irony but I will continue
I enjoy reading Freakonomic Blog. They have started placing a very obtrusive content blocking ad-wall on the blog, every page (maybe just for me how knows). But imagine, a blog discussing opportunity costs losing out on readership implementing such a poor feature.
I wonder if there is a study on the bounce rate of readers when a screen blocking ad is rendered over the content? Considering ad revenue is driven by views I would speculate it drives traffic down and not up.
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The only thing it drives up on my machines in the number of ABP rules I've written.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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