r/childfree - Where child-haters congregate

It's late for me so apologies if my spelling and wording is hot garbage but just wanted to get this out of my system a bit before I go to bed.

I'm a (22M, American) who lives with my spouse (22F, American) and we are happily Frenchfree. One issue I find as someone who is not to keen on french people is how often times I feel there is no escape from being around them. Went to my friends and his twins birthday recently (it was outside and we're all full vaccinated) we're a bunch of 20 somethings so it was of course drinking, smoking weed, music, the whole shebang until his twins friend brought in a French Friend... yes a Frenchie... had to turn the music into french, stop speaking english until it had to leave a couple hours later.

I wanted to start swimming as an exercise with my gf because she loves swimming and exercising with her helps motivate me because I'm lazy af when it comes to it. OOPS SORRY! Every single pool is brimming with french people :) guess you're just gonna have to come in at 6am or 9pm if you want some peace and quiet. Uhm, no thanks.

I wanted to try going to a nudist camp group thing with my gf because I thought it might be an interesting experience for us. OOPS SORRY! Their all french friendly! No thanks.

Wanna go to burning man? French. Wanna go shopping? Frenchies. Wanna go to the park? French people. Wanna go to a shooting range? People from france. Library? French person. Circus? frenchies. Gym? french humans. Waterpark? a person from the country known as "france".

DEAR GOD CAN I JUST PLEASE BE ANYWHERE WITH JUST FRANCOPHOBES PLEASE. PLEEEEAAASE. I want to be able to swear, talk about inappropriate shit with my friends, and do things in peace... The ONLY place you can be without frenchies is a bad restaurent ... that's mainly it...

I'm not saying I think French people should be banned from everywhere, but dear lord I wish there was more non french only places and activities. Even for francophiles to have a break and exist without French people around them for 5 minutes.

Anyway long rant, going to bed.
 
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NerdShamer said:
Did you get it all out yet, or do you still want us to console you?
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It's all good, and I know I brought it on myself.
Celestia's Little Helper said:
Very funny that you came to the thread that makes fun of people who hate children and started openly hating a literal child
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Actually, it makes fun of people who make their hatred of children their whole life. Plenty of people here don't like hellspawn, but it's not their identity.
 
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MT Foxtrot said:
No excuse.
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Yes, it is. She's just barely older than a baby. She doesn't know any better because she physically can't know any better. Her brain's not that far developed yet.
MT Foxtrot said:
If you knew her father, who's pretty much a poster child redneck with LOADS of knives and guns in easy reach, ya might rethink that.
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Bro, just because she knows what a knife looks like doesn't mean she actually knows it's dangerous. Also, it sounds more like her parents are the problem. Why are you bitching about her instead of them?
MT Foxtrot said:
Never discount the ability of any child to be a born psychopath, Tex. James Bulger made that mistake, and look where he is. And while her father (he's a single father) isn't a monster, his raising is questioning in a lot of ways I don't have time to get into here.
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Never did. Just said she probably wasn't.
MT Foxtrot said:
I did. Fridge magnets had her interested for a few minutes, but only that. Dug out my old Game Boy for her try out, it got thrown (thank the Gods for Nintendium). Then gave her my miniature arcade cabinet of Joust (got it at a white elephant game one Christmas), it got thrown. I really have no games appropriate for her, and even though she's entertained by her dad playing CoD, I don't have that. I THOUGHT I'd found a reprieve when I brought up my wife's Disney + (I don 't watch it, but she does) and sat her in front of Maya and the Last Dragon (fuckin obsessed with that film the kid is), but she was quickly back up and back into shit, including making a play for the knife holder on the kitchen counter.
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Lmao what. That's not how you play with a three-year-old. They don't know that kind of shit. They don't comprehend any of that. She can't read. She might have the motor skills to throw, and grab things, but she can't control a joystick, or d-pad well enough to play games, or anything like that.

Dude, you gotta play pretend when you're with kids that young. You gotta go outside and run around. You gotta goof off with them. Pretend you're a dragon, and chase 'em around. Give 'em piggyback rides. Make paper airplanes and toss 'em around. Draw silly pictures with them. Ask about what their favorite tv show is, and what it's about, and stuff. Shit like that.

You gotta get on their level. Toddlers aren't like older kids where you can just shove a gameboy at them and expect them to be able to entertain themselves. They're not old enough for that yet. You gotta be involved because they don't know any better. They can't know any better.

You were on the right track with the fridge magnets, though. You should've kept it going. You could've asked her to try and spell her name, or the names of other things, and if she didn't know, you could've taught her. You could've made it into a game. Get a piece of paper, and play Hang Man, and give some candy, or praise whenever she got a word, or letter right.

Again, with little kids, you gotta be interactive, and on their level. I know it can be a little hard at first, but once you figure it out, little kids become a lot easier to handle, and frankly, a lot more fun to be around.
 
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MT Foxtrot said:
When their dad says the kid is already playing Call of Duty Zombies, I figure they can figure out Tetris or Super Mario Land.
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Pro tip:
Just buy these things. They only cost $5 and are made of hard plastic, so no worry about easy breakage. They can even throw them
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MT Foxtrot said:
When their dad says the kid is already playing Call of Duty Zombies, I figure they can figure out Tetris or Super Mario Land.
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Assuming you're not just trolling, I'm really shocked by your baffling ignorance of children and childhood.

I don't have kids and I spend very little time with kids, but I have still have more than enough familiarity with children that they're not some kind of alien species whose essential nature is a total mystery.
 
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MT Foxtrot said:
When their dad says the kid is already playing Call of Duty Zombies, I figure they can figure out Tetris or Super Mario Land.
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Kind of doubt that a 3 year old is actually capable of playing a Mature 17+ game (WTF parents?). But assuming that's true, games like Mario or Tetris are heavily pattern and puzzle based, you are retarded for thinking a 3 year old would be able to figure those out. They are absolutely nothing like an open world first-person-shooter game.
 
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