Poll: Do You Hate Children?

[chowderface]

I only like kids when they're young enough that, if they're being troublesome and misbehaving, I can use my superior size to physically put the kibosh on their shenanigans, because regardless of how much firm command I speak with, they don't respect my authority (perhaps trying to deal with them the way I deal with dogs is part of the problem?). When they're big enough that they can still get up to shit dangling three feet off the ground I tend to lose interest.

I guess it's not that I dislike kids specifically so much as I find it discouraging that I'm going to all this trouble to talk to them on their own level AND assume that "their own level" is a fairly intelligent one, and then they figure since I'm treating them with a little respect, which is unusual enough for a grown-up, they don't have to return the favor.

 

[JoJo]

Kids are fine while they're still young and cute. By the age of twelve or so they seem to have this annoying tendency to turn into little scrotes all full of attitude. Not all children do this, of course, but enough to make it fairly common. Then they don't become reasonable human beings again til they're about 25 or so.

Pretty much this, I love little kids although teens are a mixed bag depending on personality, some of them are alright but many aren't.

Also, as said before this thread is a magnet to jaded misantrophes, so to any normal people, beware!

 

[PurplePlatypus]

I don?t hate them but then I don?t have to deal with them so there?s little for me to be even annoyed at. Well unless they are being annoying in public somewhere and I have to witness it, although even then I mostly find it funny unless they are being destructive or something like that.

I don?t like children either; I just don?t want much to do with them I suppose.

 

[Nouw]

One of the most harsh generalizations would be to say 'I hate all children.'

I dislike a good part of my fellow school-peers, as far as it goes.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I don't hate all children since after all, we were all used to be a annoying brats. Yest I have encounter some annoying children but regardless I don't hate all of them.

 

[Valksy]

I really don't like them, but the notion of hatred is ridiculous.

I have managed to get to the age of 37 without ever having even held a baby. And I have zero maternal instinct. They simply don't interest me in the slightest and I tune most of them off my personal radar.

 

[willofbob]

sure, they're cute, but most are total arses when they learn to talk. some last a bit longer.

I prefer cats and dogs. sure they're just as dumb and immature as kids, but dogs worship the ground you walk on, and cats at least stay out of the way.

 

[willofbob]

I don't hate all children since after all, we were all used to be a annoying brats.

in the immortal words of Yahtzee: "yeah, I was a kid once, but I had the strength of character to get through it."

in other words, we grow up. most people that is.

 

[kasperbbs]

I don`t hate children, but sometimes i have to take care of my 3yo cousin and she won`t stay still for a minute, she gets her sticky fingers on everything and manages to push every button in sight or take anything thats not attached to something and if you don`t let her she starts crying, but seconds later shes fine after she got what she wanted. Sure they are cute, but mostly when they are someone elses problem.

 

[michiehoward]

I hate other people's children...does that count?

 

[Toriver]

I like kids before and after the early teen 12-15 years, around junior high school age, at least in America. (One of the ways Japanese kids are different [I teach them]; Japanese junior high kids are great too!) American junior high kids seem to have the obnoxious tendency to be complete dicks to everyone just because they think they can. I have found only two exceptions to this rule: my sister and one cousin of mine. They fail to put anything into proper perspective, flipping out over the tiniest of things and not giving a damn about the stuff that really matters. They rebel far too often, they do horrible things to each other just for the lulz, and they get pissed off if anyone doesn't treat them like the rulers of the world. Once they get past the 15-16 mark, they're fine again. But good lord, those few years before then, they are living nightmares.

 

[smithy_2045]

I hate all children

 

[Sandernista]

Other. As in no.

 

[Slippers]

1-3 - A pain in the ass,
4-6 - A nuisance,
7-12 - Somewhat neutral,
13-16 - Hate. Really, really, really hate,
17-18 - Slightly hate,
19-64 - Neutral,
65-89 - Slightly hate,
90+ - A nuisance.

 

[Lucie]

Way to generalize, no? I mean it's the same with people, some people you hate and some people you love. I've met some pretty annoying brats, but some kids are really cute, my boyfriend's nieces are adorable. They're 9 and 7 btw.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I notice that most kids generally start getting annoying at about mid-12 to me... I wouldn't say that I hate them, but they're just annoying (not all of them). I like kids for the most part, and I think they're fun to play games with or any other activities. I do want one eventually when my girlfriend and I feel ready (years from now) to take care of another life. I think it would be quite the experience.

 

[fordneagles]

Only the ones that run around being a utter nuisance and/or the ones that do that wailing thing that pierces straight into your freakin' brain and somehow goes on FOREVER (I work in retail, unfortunately I see these kinds of kids a lot). I suppose I could say that I don't so much hate the kids but I hate the parents who let them behave that way. CONTROL YOUR DAMN CHILD FFS!

 

[Leadfinger]

I love children, but I can't eat a whole one.

 

[AshuraSpeaks]

Kids, similarly to adults, are each individuals, so I try to give all of them a chance and let them show me how mature or immature they might be. When I was younger, particularly middle school age, I found myself surrounded by adults who all attempted to classify me with the children around me, whom I had little to nothing in common with. As the adult now, I try to give kids the benefit of the doubt.

So in short, I don't hate all children, just the ones that piss me off/get on my nerves/act like little bastards.

THIS! When I was a stripling, many an adult complimented me on how mature I was at such a young age. To be discounted then as merely a child was frustrating, and in many cases unwarranted.