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Originally Posted by Table 5
Also, finally I get to pay back all that jackasses who's crying babies kept me up whenever I was flying! At least I get to be the jackass now.
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When you have a kid you'll quickly find that the crying baby on the flight is not the biggest jackass on the plane. Though I've never had an issue with babies on planes. They're babies who do baby stuff, as long as the parents are doing what they can there is no harm IMO.
Now the guy sitting next to me with his headphones blaring so I can hear everything even with my own headphones on or behind me who doesn't have the ability to stand up without pulling on my seat or the loud talking idiots who think everyone wants to hear their views on everything....those people I have a problem with.
But you're right, adapt the baby more to your lifestyle (within reason of course. The baby likely isn't interested in a midnight trip to the strippers. I also recommend having a schedule as it will help down the road). Kids haven't changed how we do things other than having to include more people into our hobbies and past times.
Just remember to give yourselves some off time. Give the wife a night or two off a week to do whatever she wants especially the first 6 months to a year as she'll need that time off. When the kid gets older begin to take your night off. My night "off" is Wednesday night to go play hockey. Saturday morning I play hockey while she brings the kids to swimming. She gets tuesday and thursday night off for PiYo. I bring them for karate on the Tuesday. Not only does that give you some downtime away from the kids you also schedule in quality time with just the kids (also do special things with the kids individually when you can. I have a standing date alternating Sunday mornings where I take one of the kids to breakfast. Just the two of us.). Every couple of weeks we get a babysitter and go for dinner and a movie.
Maybe we're odd but we haven't found kids all that stressful or detrimental to our way of life. Quite the opposite.