Mine: My dad never really spent much time with me / showed much interest (he died fairly young so we never got a chance to rectify that but he was a good soul otherwise).

I’ve invested a lot of time with all of my kids and it has paid huge dividends. I’ve always loved kids so I’m not sure it’s directly related / I feel like I would have anyway but I do think about it from time to time as a possible motivator.

In fairness I feel like I landed on my feet pretty well with my folks, especially compared to some of the stuff I’ve read on the internet. My mum is an absolute legend. Love her to bits.

I think if you go to a parenting community and say you’re glad you never had kids you should expect downvoting. Nobody was being mean. It added nothing.

Of course they’re free to be glad they didn’t have kids, I’m not arguing against that, but this doesn’t seem like the best place to express that and the downvotes bear witness to that IMO.

It’s a parenting community.

100 of their breaths, uninterrupted by any movement, change or disturbance of any kind. That was my hard learned rule.

Absolutely terrifying putting down a light sleeper. Terrifying. 😭

I’m a parent to a lot of kids and the only thing I’ll say that hasn’t been said already is that my experience is that you bottom out around 8 weeks in from exhaustion and broken sleep, then it’s a slow uphill move from there as baby’s sleep routines start to settle in and you find your own groove.

Don’t worry about the bonding. It’ll happen.

Good luck!

My kids, who I consider excellent trolls, do not have that level of patience. That is top tier.