My Single Child is Happy and So Are We
Is it really so hard to believe?
“But she’ll be lonely”
She’s just fine. We spend a lot of time with her.
“She needs someone to play with”
She has plenty of friends and close cousins.
“She’ll be spoilt”
We don’t give her everything she wants, whenever she wants. She doesn’t get away with being rude. She’s fine.
“It’s better to have more kids. They’ll look after you when you’re old.”
Are you f*$king kidding me?
This is the line of conversation we get regularly because we have one child.
Yes, just one child.
As if one child isn’t enough.
Seriously. Is it really such an injustice?
Here are 7 grateful reasons we — and other 1 child households — choose to have “only” 1 child:
1. You can form a close bond with your child
It’s easier for single-child parents to spend quality time with our children. Talking to them. Listening to them. Playing with them. Helping them.
When each parent is with our child, we have different conversations. We connect in our own…
