Conference open thread

[The_Tick]

You're a good man, Dr. Wuap.

We are having this talk with our oldest on a daily basis....

1. Don't get married too soon.
2. Don't have any babies until you have a diploma in your hand.
3. Don't be pushed/guilted into marrying before you want to.

These are the BYU discussing points in our home.

Mrs. Funk...if you are still there in the fall you may have to pay our little one a hello visit.

[TripletDaddy]

My daughters will hear a steady stream of marrying earning potential.

your daughters and my daughters will be very good friends.

[Mrs. Funk]

We are having this talk with our oldest on a daily basis....

1. Don't get married too soon.
2. Don't have any babies until you have a diploma in your hand.
3. Don't be pushed/guilted into marrying before you want to.

These are the BYU discussing points in our home.

Mrs. Funk...if you are still there in the fall you may have to pay our little one a hello visit.

I'd love to pay her a visit. We're not totally sure where we'll be in six months, but if we're still around, gladly.

I would add
4. After you marry, the decision to have children and when to have them is between you, your spouse, and God. Everybody else can butt out.

[LA Ute]

My daughters will hear a steady stream of marrying earning potential.

your daughters and my daughters will be very good friends.

LOL (with approval - I still have a 13 year-old daughter)!

Have I ever posted here "Father Knows Best?" You dads of little girls would enjoy it, I think.

[MarkGrace]

My daughters will hear a steady stream of marrying earning potential.

I hope I'm reading this wrong. (And chances are I am, or just inferring too much into it)

[Surfah]

I hope I'm reading this wrong. (And chances are I am, or just inferring too much into it)

Probably not.

[MarkGrace]

Then dude, that's just sad.

[Surfah]

Then dude, that's just sad.

Why?

[wuapinmon]

A mom who dropped out of college, but continues to read and study is much more prolific in my eyes than a mom who got her degree and spends her days watching soap operas and eating bon bons while her kids play video games (consider this last sentence a very big generalization but hopefully it gets my point across).

A mom who dropped out of college, and then has her husband die or divorce her can't do jack shit for earning potential compared to that previously-pampered bon-bon eating college grad.

[beefytee]

I'd love to pay her a visit. We're not totally sure where we'll be in six months, but if we're still around, gladly.

I would add
4. After you marry, the decision to have children and when to have them is between you, your spouse, and God. Everybody else can butt out.

So does #4 trump #2.

[Solon]

your daughters and my daughters will be very good friends.

Quit with your attacks on the family, already!

[The_Tick]

I'd love to pay her a visit. We're not totally sure where we'll be in six months, but if we're still around, gladly.

I would add
4. After you marry, the decision to have children and when to have them is between you, your spouse, and God. Everybody else can butt out.

That is there also.

I don't think we talk enough to couples in the church about both adults in the relationship agreeing about having children.

I have a few friends (the guy in the marraige mind you) that have more children than they ever wanted.

It usually boils down to the wife saying that she had a revelation or a prompting from the Spirit that they were to have another child.

I would hope that both parties feel the conformation or come to an agreement.

No one should feel forced to have another child if the other spouse doesn't want any more kids. (This is coming from the guy that would have liked to have 2 or more kids, but the stork never delivered anymore.)

[The_Tick]

A mom who dropped out of college, and then has her husband die or divorce her can't do jack shit for earning potential compared to that previously-pampered bon-bon eating college grad.

I said the same thing, but not in as much as a "how do you like them apples" type of way!

:P

[Mrs. Funk]

So does #4 trump #2.

You caught me in faulty drafting. In my opinion, no. Perhaps it's 2(a): Once your finish your degree, when to have children is between you, your spouse, and God.

[Surfah]

A mom who dropped out of college, and then has her husband die or divorce her can't do jack shit for earning potential compared to that previously-pampered bon-bon eating college grad.

When and how did bon-bons become this gourmet treat reserved for the seeming rich and lazy? Do they even sell them anymore? I can't even remember the last time I have seen them in the freezer aisle of the supermarket. To be honest I don't think I have ever even tried one. Aren't they like bite sized Klondike bars?