She’s very excitable and barks loudly and rapid-fire and it takes basically nothing to set her off. It’s loud enough to give me a headache through a closed door, and from my perspective the barking fits come more or less at random. Not helping things is that my family thinks it’s hilarious to get her riled up and does it constantly 
But if you say you don’t like dogs, people act like there is something wrong with you and assume you must be a bad person 
This is me but with the 5 children all under 10 that are cramped into a small house.
I’m not anti natalist but I genuinely cannot understand both how parents do it and also why do many of them somehow like to do it. It’s completely beyond my understanding. Even an hour with this volume and chaos has me completely shutting down
You kind of adjust to it or find ways to cope with overstimulation. For whatever it’s worth I find being a parent extremely rewarding and satisfying. It’s still a tremendous challenge that would be even harder without community support.
5 is too many