Australians in trouble “warning”

Hi Michael,

My experience with kids is that once the first bub comes along the maternal instinct kicks in big time. Then number 2 comes along….[blink]
I had a lot of trouble getting my “career” wife back to work!!!

See you on the beach at North Narra some time. (BTW imagine what that caravan parks worth!!!!)

If she can look after a dog, a kid will be no probs… The dog you have to exercise, a kid, they just run around in circles.

A dog you have to feed every day, a kid can get to an age where they can eventually feed themselves…

Hee hee… Yeah, you go home and be a house dad. I am fully prepared after a year or two to swap with my husband so he can experience being a home daddy too. I don’t wanna be greedy…

I’m itching to get pregnant too, but we have decided to wait until after april/may next year before we get started… I’m lucky too in the fact that I can work right up until I’m 8 months gone in teaching too. So I won’t lose too much…

Plus the family daycare is certainly a big option for us as well.

Good luck Michael and anyone else about to breed. Bring on the babies!!! Maybe we need to start a thread where you show off your latest additions and I don’t mean properties!!! Hee hee…
Steph.

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

g’day michael. your posts make me laugh cause your wife sounds a bit like my wife. when i first met my wife she told me that she was a career woman and wasnt that maternal. 7 years later she is a great mum…although work is still important to her and fair enough aswell…she is back 3 days a week. grandparents doing the childcare thingo which they love.

i think what richmond says is true that i doubt when we are old and grey we wished that we had worked more.

my daughter just truned 12 months old. highly recommended..

mrs richmond and I broke the “12 week rule” in announcing our pregnancy… we were just too excited. She’s due at the end of July.

Cheers
r

Yay! Babies!! I told you we should start a thread showing off the forum bubs!

Congratulations again Richmond!!! My brother and his wife broke that rule too, but only to family. They told at 7 weeks.

All very exciting though. THe first Versace grandchild! yay!!! Mine will be the second…
Not that I’m pregnant though.

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

net debt per head underestimates the average mortgage as it includes people who rent (who have no debt)

gen x, far from being lazy layabouts are a hardworking group. I feel sorry for them that they are laden with debt from high prices.

The other half of the recent increase in debt hasw been BB’s. Far from being wealthy as supposed, they have taken out more debt to play catchup. This is perhaps why our net savings rate has been decling (and negative in the last couple of years) despite the demographics indicating that this should be a time of high savings.

Migration cannot possibly be a solution to the aging population. It would have to increase 1000% to make a dent. The only way the aging polulation can be arrested is if fertility rates increase significantly, but this is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

-I am not fat and greedy!!! (and I know how to look after myself thankyou very much!) hehe [biggrin]

Obiwan, you brought up an interesting point about fertility. There really needs to be more encouragement and incentives for mothers to stay home with their children. I mean, nurturing the future generation is a fulltime job as is and maybe the government needs to treat it like that. Pay mothers a half decent amount to stay home with their children.

I certainly plan to stay home regardless, but I probably would be more encouraged to fall pregnant quicker if I knew that some of the taxes I have paid out over the years will help me out.

I’m not so sure in my head how it would work, but if the younger generations are to look after the oldies, we really do need to increase the birth rate in Aus.

Steph.

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

” I CHOOSE not to have kids as many other people do so it would not be fair on all of us. “

it is your choice but it is to the detriment of the nation, hence you are penalised

John – 0419 198 856

“It was the Government’s choice to go to war”

interesting take on history! (a) the Japanese weren’t invited to bomb us (b)it dawned on us that a huge underpopulated land mass may make us a target for invasion, hence ‘populate or perish’. The lessons of history haven’t been learnt, hence we are still underpopulated with no political influence in the world. nice beaches though and we can cook a mean bbq.

Extensive list of ‘Off The Plan’ property available for sale in Perth.

John – 0419 198 856