I am renting a room from a single mother and her 1.5 kids. Well, the mother is going through a divorce and the husband is taking care of the son while my landlady is taking care of the daughter.

Anyways, this morning at about 3am I was woken up by the sound of the girl throwing up in the bathroom. I always sleep through the toilet flushes but this girl must have been so nervous about getting braces today, that her nervousness made her throw up… a lot.

My landlady being a single mother, by choice, had to go help her kid. Since she was the parent she;

• HAD to get out of her warm bed
• HAD to comfort her girl at the toilet
• HAD to clean up the mess in her room
• HAD to make something for the girl to eat afterwards because she was hungry
• HAD to loose sleep throughout the whole process

If I was a child and my parent didn’t help me when I was anxious and uneasy, then that would be plane scary. No comforting and no companionship would have made my nervousness increase exponentially.

For example, if I was the mother and I got to sleep at 1am because I was finishing up the annual presentation that would save hundreds of peoples jobs. Since I had to stay up for 2 hours with my kid I had lost sleep and increased my crankiness in the morning. Because no kid who was up for 2 hours in the middle of the night is going to wake up easy in the morning. pish

I am childfree because I don’t want to do all that stuff. Sure, that’s a very selfish thing to say but I really don’t think the “joy” of having a kid (which I don’t believe in) would be just so incredibly strong that would justify taking care of a human being that I willingly created. ewww, that’s just NOT for me. I like my uninterrupted sleep thank you very much.