Reply to: Baby gender scan

[suityou01]

Coincidence that the lowest points coincide with the time people are having or raising kids, and then jumps dramatically when those kids leave home?

Nope, no coincidence at all

[d000hg]

Happiness is smile shaped


(doesnt mention kids though)

Coincidence that the lowest points coincide with the time people are having or raising kids, and then jumps dramatically when those kids leave home?

[gingerjedi]

Happiness is smile shaped




Research into happiness suggests that our levels of happiness change throughout our lives.
People were asked how satisfied they are with their lives.
Most people start off happy and become progressively less happy as they grow older.
For many people, the most miserable period in their life is their 40s.
After that most people's levels of happiness climb.
This graph shows average life satisfaction based on extensive research from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2003.
It seems men are slightly happier on average than women in their teens, but women bounce back and overtake men later in life.

Women start with lower levels of average life satisfaction than men.
The low point seems to last for longer for women - throughout their 30s and 40s, only climbing once women reach 50. Then women tend to overtake men. Men start slightly higher than women on average, and their lowest point is their 40s, climbing again once they reach 50

(doesnt mention kids though)

The female (red line) is smirking, you can’t trust 'em.

[Halo Jones]

Happiness is smile shaped
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According to that I should be about ready to shoot myself

[MarillionFan]

Child free & happy

Happiness is smile shaped




Research into happiness suggests that our levels of happiness change throughout our lives.
People were asked how satisfied they are with their lives.
Most people start off happy and become progressively less happy as they grow older.
For many people, the most miserable period in their life is their 40s.
After that most people's levels of happiness climb.
This graph shows average life satisfaction based on extensive research from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2003.
It seems men are slightly happier on average than women in their teens, but women bounce back and overtake men later in life.

Women start with lower levels of average life satisfaction than men.
The low point seems to last for longer for women - throughout their 30s and 40s, only climbing once women reach 50. Then women tend to overtake men. Men start slightly higher than women on average, and their lowest point is their 40s, climbing again once they reach 50

(doesnt mention kids though)

[Halo Jones]

I don't have any children, just wondering if anybody else here doesn't as well. Perhaps a poll?

Child free & happy

[amcdonald]

Couldn't you adopt a girl, that's always one option ?

[PRC1964]

Well my children run around kicking things, digging holes, painting their fathers nails while he "sleeps" and inventing incomprehensible games which can only be won by farting loudly or dropping a paper water bomb on someones head.

I think I'm doing OK at parenting.

Oh, and to get back on topic, I have three boys and a girl. SY, I hope for your sanity you get another boy.

[MarillionFan]

Yours still up?

No. This is AtW, I'm just waiting for my sofa delivery.

[MaryPoppins]

It's all down to parenting skills.

Good parents have children who are polite, clever and sleep well at night. Bad parents have kids who run amok, are rude and play up at night.

Yours still up?

[MarillionFan]

Jeez. You have my deepest, most sincere sympathies. Just remember - it'll pass.

Only to be overtaken by the next wave of crap.

It's all down to parenting skills.

Good parents have children who are polite, clever and sleep well at night. Bad parents have kids who run amok, are rude and play up at night.

[MaryPoppins]

Never mind the kids, tell us more about you and the massage lady.

Sitting comfortably?


I will freely admit that in my past, I've spent some time with women. One woman in particular.




She helped my son with his severe constipation.

[d000hg]

WSS. With the palm of your hand. A massage lady told me to follow this up with gentle pressing round the tummy, also clockwise. Worked a treat.

It's Mumsnet night!!

Never mind the kids, tell us more about you and the massage lady.

[suityou01]

If I had 4 million kids, the little f.kcers would sleep when I told them to.

Ah, the catholic upbringing. Lots to be said for it.

[MaryPoppins]

Poor naive MP. Even if I had Buck Pal they would still be facebooking each other.

If I had 4 million kids, the little f.kcers would sleep when I told them to.