I know a lot of couples preferred to only have one child due to various reasons from financial constraints to lack of time or even lack of love (?). Whatever it is, I feel that we should all have more than one child. It is either have two children or not at all. Why have one and stop there? My reasons for having more than one child are:
1. You already lost your figure and have parts of your body riddled with stretch marks when you have the first kid, having another one won’t make much difference.
2. Both of you already lost your privacy and ‘honeymoon period’ of only two of you at home where you are able to get on hot and heavy wherever and whenever now that you have a small impressionable child running around, so having another one won’t make you lose more privacy.
3. You have already adapted to sleeping less than 6 hours a day with the first child and if you don’t have another one, you may shock your system if you suddenly sleep more.
4. All that is yours and all your money already belonged to your child, so why not split it up to benefit two or three instead of only one?
5. You already learned to nag when trying to get the firstborn to do something, so no point wasting the newly-acquired skill when you can use it on the second or third or fourth child.
6. You have also acquired new negotiation skills to negotiate your way outta buying the kid new toys each time you go shopping so you should keep this useful skills sharp by having more children to negotiate with.
7. Your patience level has increased that you are not bothered by broken things and spilt food so you should keep the level high by having more little ‘terrors’ to test your patience. Who knows, you may become a saint!
8. You kid will never ever bother you to ‘play with me please’ since they will be busy fighting and shouting at each other.
9. You won’t end up with a selfish prat who only thinks about himself, doesn’t share and thinks the world revolves around him because he will have to fight for stuffs with his siblings, fight for attention from his parents and learn to share and be considerate to others in the same home. (Not that I am saying all single child are spoilt. Only some are if the parents spoil them.)
10. Your kid won’t end up talking to himself and your house will never be a silent, lonely place ever again as it will be filled with screams, shouts, laughter and love.
Finally, if you are still undecided, you can always choose not to have children if you truly, truly are scared of these reasons for not having children.
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