Without Child

My son, at six years old, has already decided for himself that he does not want to have children — he says they would take too much time away from his important goals of being an Inventor. I always remind him that he could come to change his mind, and that he has plenty of time ahead to make that choice — but his mind seems made up, for the moment.

I wonder if he somehow understands that he's going through an era right now that is especially demanding of his parents? That, as much as we love him, being his parents is occasionally difficult and exhausting? We try not to let that show, not too much (and we know it won't last), but it's impossible to disguise completely. And he personalizes this as not wanting to have a "little guy," an endearment he's known since he was just hours old.

Or is this just a decision he's arrived at via inimitable six-year-old logic?