Parenting is a full-time, unpaid job and needs a whole sack of patience and tonnes of grace. Those ungrateful rascals can decide to terrorise and embarrass you in your own home, and it only gets worse when they get to teenage! So, if you ain't ready for character development courtesy of your own kids, take a pause, babe.
Wonder why your married friends who have kids suddenly don't have time for you, for chamas, hikes, camping and zip lining the way they used to? Before those little humans checked in, weekends were rave days. Furaha - ni kuwa na marafiki! Road trips, nyam chom and liqour. You'd day drink and spend huge amounts of money on silly sherehes. Kids come and tables are turned! No time for useless raves and parties. Check again if you're ready to forego all that. Parenthood is sacrifice. A lot of it.
Let me address women in this paragraph. Actually, this whole article is addressed to women - because men can jump pregnancies! They do it so often, so perfectly. Wueh! That gender can give belle and even moan while at it but deny that they ever saw you naked. Fear those humans.
So here, the only circumstance under which you should have a child is when you are ready to have one. Go back to paragraph five. Keenly, this time round.
Don't have a kid simply because you think that a third human in your lives will keep you two together for ever. It might as well be the deal breaker, especially if the decision was one sided or there was no discussion about it. And even if there was, sit back and rethink.
Every woman is a potential single parent because a man can take a shower, dress up, leave the house and forget to come back to his kid(s)! They have selective amnesia, forgive them. So unless you can do it alone when things go south, court corridors are draining.
Resist the urge of getting pregnant because Mr Man is a good boyfriend. Because he treats you well. Calls you Jaber. A Girl Toto. Buys you flowers and chocolate. Gives good strokes. Sweetie, just get your toe curling orgasms and leave! Boyfriends and fathers are two very different people bana. Curse that baby fever, spit that bad saliva and chill your ovaries.
Let's unlearn this dangerously misleading idea that if you've dated for six years, then he definitely is a keeper and can make a good father. It's not automatic. Life happens.
Just have a baby when you, as a woman, is ready to have one and enjoy motherhood!
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