Kids regrets and child gap

The children didn't want to come home, they'd have to be lured back with promises of all things great and tasty! We're making momos, they'd need to be told, or look someone brought you a candy, or okay you can watch the tv for an hour extra as long as you do your homework! He remembered fondly how they wanted to spend so much time outside the house! Doing physical workouts and exploring the world having adventures talking to people doing all sorts of interesting things like he had done as a child.

And now. How things had changed. Kids needed to be forced to go outside and even then they absolutely refused to have adventures. They were all stuck in those four inches of bright screen, talking to each other having weird cyber adventures, their bodies falling apart from disuse. Children should be active, they should move around want to explore things get to know the culture get familiar with their neighbors and the surroundings! Not the kids these days though, all they cared for was facebook and youtube and chatting and tiktok and making stupid faces taking stupid pictures in voices that sounded like mice's. That was all. And it was stupid.

He wished he didn't have to go through all of that again, not that he was complaining. Close family hadn't said anything about the gap, but strangers had talked of course, he wasn't happy but then he couldn't blame them either. Twenty year gap between your two children is a long time, and his wife was almost getting a bit too old for this. The doctors had warned there could be complications, it was their luck there hadn't been, but it could have been really bad. While their friends were enjoying their lives as grandparents -- which they hoped to be able to do soon also -- they had to redo everything from twenty years ago. And things had changed so much since then, not just the technology but society had become more individualistic and selfish he hadn't thought about how much harder it was before he had to do it. And everything was so much more expensive, even with the increased income! Bringing up two kids in this age would have been impossible, he was glad they had their first early on.