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The Etiquette of the Childfree
hobish:
--- Quote from: violinp on August 06, 2012, 02:58:17 PM ---I think the parent may have meant we in the sense of her partner and herself as a parenting unit, therefore what she meant "Partner and I can't find a sitter, so you and I can't visit."
It's massively rude to not tell a friend you can't be there before the other friend is inconvenienced, however.
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That's what i was getting at. If a friend told me "we" can't find a sitter i would never think that "I" was part of that "we". I'm not saying it doesn't happen; maybe some people mean it that way. I know my friends don't; it never would have occurred to me they might.
lollylegs:
You might think of your pets as children and that's perfectly legitimate, but it also means that you should uphold the same standards that parents are held to, such as don't dominate conversations with talk of your pets, don't express horrified shock if someone says they're not a pet person (yes, I'm petfree, don't judge me!), don't insist upon your non-dog-liking friend patting your dog, and for the love of all that is holy, do not pepper casual conversation with explicit details of their sicknesses and injuries.
Piratelvr1121:
--- Quote from: lollylegs on August 24, 2012, 11:34:24 PM ---You might think of your pets as children and that's perfectly legitimate, but it also means that you should uphold the same standards that parents are held to, such as don't dominate conversations with talk of your pets, don't express horrified shock if someone says they're not a pet person (yes, I'm petfree, don't judge me!), don't insist upon your non-dog-liking friend patting your dog, and for the love of all that is holy, do not pepper casual conversation with explicit details of their sicknesses and injuries.
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And please don't insist on taking them everywhere, especially to places they don't belong and you don't have permission to bring them. Our local park has a section of it where pets are not allowed, but I've seen some people bringing their small dogs, as if the dog is too small to count as a dog, therefore they can bring them. It's not the whole park that's off limits, pretty much just the part that includes the two playgrounds. Considering it's a good sized park, it's not like there's not plenty of other room to walk a dog.
veryfluffy:
I think we are straying into the etiquette of "pets", rather than childfree. None of the behaviour cited in the last two posts is specific to the childfree, is it?
Piratelvr1121:
True, though in my reply (which I admit it was not made clear), I was kinda comparing how some parents think their child is welcome anywhere to how some folks believe their pets belong everywhere.
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