Poll: Have you ever wanted to beat a child?

[ForensicYOYO]

Let's face facts. Children are annoying. They're tiny bundles of loud noises and endless unanswerable questions, repeating anything and everything they hear at the most inappropriate times. These facts beg the question then: have you ever had the urge to beat a child?

 

[pyrosaw]

Despite that I am a child, yes all the time. I planned it out.Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Thought about it, never done it.

 

[Furious Styles]

Oh yeah! I have 7 young cousins aged between 4 and 8, three of them are terribly behaved and I've never wanted to punch something that small so much in my life.

 

[DazZ.]

Can't think of something I haven't ever wanted to hit.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I have 2 kid siblings and one who is a teenager. They are all annoying but since they are blood relatives my desire to do horrible things to them is limited. As for strange children who come into my work and bring my games, movies and, music sections into disarray...I want to destroy them...and their OCD addled parents too...but mostly the children. I dislike children greatly and can't wait until I have a place of my own (this loser lives at home) I will be an insane old man whose apartment is filled with Lizards, Insects and, Cats. Mostly the first two...

 

[crudus]

I wanted to punt one into a shelf and I think I could have claimed self defense. One of those little fuckers bit me in the store.

 

[Wyes]

Really depends on the child, but I've thought about it.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I resent the supposed 'fact' that all children are annoying. I think that their excitement, generating the loud noises, is fantastic and I always prefer children making loud noises over adults making loud noises because adults (and teenagers) only make loud noises when they want someone to pay attention to them, instead of just for fun. I also love answering questions so to have someone as curious as a child, who can often really challenge not only my knowledge but also my ability to answer in a way in which they can understand (ever tried to explain why the sky is blue to an eight year old without resorting to magic and wizards in the sky?)

Heck, maybe you're just going through the bitter antisocial stage of childhood that we all know and love as the teenage years but I don't think you've spent any considerable length of time with actual children except as you glared at them from behind the 'Nu-Metal' section of HMV. I have several friends with small children, I often find myself dragged to places where there are more small children along with these friends, and I have to say that I love small children, even when they're crying and they're loud and they want something right the hell now I have never felt the urge to hit one or even shout at one.

Plus of course, I tend to think that the urge to resort to violence in any case is a sign of a poor upbringing, in which you (in the general term of all people) learned one way or the other that violence solves problems, and this cycle will continue with anyone you encounter, unless every so often someone has the civilty to stand up and say 'hey, maybe we shouldn't try to beat all our problems into submission.'

In point of fact, the only children I have known to be real troublemakers were the ones who were beaten by their parents. My favourite little story is of the boy who grew up with an ultra-Conservative father who would beat him for any number of offences from the small to the large, and he's currently a 16 year old pre-alcoholic estranged from said father, experimenting with hard drugs, and has been in lots of trouble with the police. So I tend to use him as my litmus test of the effect of beating on children.

MZ out.

 

[Marter]

Yes, many times.

Never even came close to doing it though.

 

[Shackels]

not little kids, but the 12-18 year olds who still have the brain of a fucking six year old and feel they deserve anything need to be slapped. hard.

 

[WanderingFool]

Let's face facts. Children are annoying. They're tiny bundles of loud noises and endless unanswerable questions, repeating anything and everything they hear at the most inappropriate times. These facts beg the question then: have you ever had the urge to beat a child?

Only when the child really irks me, otherwise no.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Any human who has a baby will at some point think about tossing the baby out a window. Usually this will occur around three in the morning when the screaming commences, you are covered in spit up and the damn diaper blew out so now there is crap all over the place.

But a good person can take a breath and control it. 95% of the time kids are awesome, just remember that.