Does anyone else hate kids?

[Questionable]

I just don't like children. I don't like being around them. I never want to have any. Even the ones that are well-behaved just bother me. I can never understood people who find children so "cute" and fun, they're boring at best.

[Ostrinski]

I feel the exact same way comrade. It's such an awkward situation when I have to talk to them or deal with them. It's like just looking at them makes me mad, angry, and hateful for some reason. I can't explain it. They say and do the stupidest shit. I always wonder if I was that much of a worthless piece of shit when I was that young when I see them.

[Sentinel]

It doesn't say how old you are, but I think it's mostly an age thing. I have a (female) coworker, who is 25, and feels the exact same way as you. I respect her opinion, as I did feel about the same at her age.

But now that I'm 30+, every holiday season when we at work get lots of customers with kids I just feel like my heart breaks when I see them. I basically think it's some kind of inbuilt thing in humans, and other animals, that is extremely hard to resist.

It's an imperative to bring your genes forward that is just too strong to resist for most. Being a gay guy, I'm always on the look for a woman friend who would want kids without having a relationship.

Honestly I think it would be much better for kids to have parents that are friends and not romantically attached. They'd avoid going through the trauma caused by divorce many married couples go through.

But yeah if you can resist it, all power to you! there are too many people around anyway.


I always wonder if I was that much of a worthless piece of shit when I was that young when I see them.

I most certainly was :lol:

[Os Cangaceiros]

Eh, I like kids. Some kids, anyway. Some kids are insufferable to be around.

I don't like babies at all, though.

[Questionable]

I feel the exact same way comrade. It's such an awkward situation when I have to talk to them or deal with them. It's like just looking at them makes me mad, angry, and hateful for some reason. I can't explain it. They say and do the stupidest shit. I always wonder if I was that much of a worthless piece of shit when I was that young when I see them.

I know how you feel about the awkwardness. It's almost like some people have a talent for it that I don't. I know people that can talk to kids and communicate clearly with them, but whenever I have to it's just like "Hey, uh...what's up, kid?" or I don't say anything at all.

[Let's Get Free]

Not all of them. Although, lots of kids these days are annoying, spoiled, *****y and stupid.

[Red Commissar]

I generally only have a problem with children in the sensitive and overhormonal stage of 10-15ish. Anything outside that I find bearable, even toddlers going through terrible twos.

It's kind of odd for me, wasn't too long ago when I was their age complaining about how my parents didn't understand me and thinking everyone was mean to me.

[soso17]

It's funny...as I get older, my threshold for children has gotten lower and lower. I used to be okay with them, but now I can't stand most of them. I work in retail, and the way people let their children run around and destroy things makes me want to scream. I dunno, even things that other people think are adorable, I find them incredibly annoying and, frankly, a bit creepy.

Luckily, as a gay guy, my husband and I are not in danger of becoming parents "by mistake". I mean, I get that some, or most, people want to be parents, or at least end up as them anyways. But I feel like I'd be so restricted in life if I were a father. My man and I appreciate being able to sleep in, or take a day trip, or spend money on stuff we want. It might sound selfish, but I think it's preferable to pretending otherwise and subjecting children to one's own dysfuction.

I'm really tired, so I may or may not have said something really ignorant and/or offensive. I'm always slightly paranoid to admit how I really feel about kids, due to most people acting like you're a monster (or commie!) for holding such beliefs.

--soso

[Questionable]

Luckily, as a gay guy, my husband and I are not in danger of becoming parents "by mistake".

I don't know, man, better safe than sorry.

[citizen of industry]

I have one and I'm a pre-school teacher. I'm usually around them all day long. I find they are much more fun and better natured than adults.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Babies and toddlers can sometimes scream in a way that actually hurts my head. I don't know how they do it, but when they do I vacate the area as quickly as possible. Apart from that I don't mind kids, but there have been a couple of close calls when I've been shopping and the little buggers are running around, and I've nearly ended up accidentally kneeing them in the face.

No desire to have kids, reckon that I barely manage to look after myself.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I don't like kids, I didn't like kids when I was a kid.

[BOZG]

Miserable fuckers!

[brigadista]

expensive and a lot of work

[Lynx]

I like kittens. Kids are noisy, rambunctious and prone to mischief. They are everything that I am not.

[Pirate Utopian]

Kids are okay.

[citizen of industry]

I don't get why children's crying bothers people. Pretentious adult ramblings, lectures from trainers and bosses, obvious announcements, etc. grate on my nerves far more than a toddler pissed about an unsatisfied want or need, which can easily be provided, made to forget about by a change in environment, or explained if it isn't reasonable. Generally, kids are happy and tantrums are a short-lived exception. Generally, adults are pissed off and exhausted for obvious reasons. An hour with an adult you hate seems like forever. An hour in a room full of hyperactive and happy kids goes by in a second. And if you have kids, they represent all the good qualities of humanity and your DNA until labor and society fucks them up.

[citizen of industry]

Also, I think children are the greatest condemnation of capital if you have them. Reading Engels Conditions of the Working Class in England, for example, and the exhausted 5 year olds being woken up before dawn, still unconscious and automatically performing assembly line actions in their beds, suffering from TB and shit. Or Hiroshima toddlers born after the war started, eating lunch and then boom. Comparing that to modern accounts about the bomb saving lives, etc. Or just private education ripping working families off not having enough materials, all so a bank or investment firm can make a little profit. Capitalism treats children like garbage for a few cents, and because they aren't aware of it they are happy even if they don't have shit. I think adults could be as happy as chilfren if it weren't for capitalism. I don't particularly value my own life, but when capitalism destroys children for profit, and often insufficient profit at that, it makes me feel violent like nothing else. Look at Iraq. A million dead, how many of them children? For what?

[Rugged Collectivist]

They say and do the stupidest shit.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Kids are just so... irrational. I know they're young and they don't really know better but it pisses me off to no end.

I also hate watching kids. I love my sister's kids but I loathe watching them.

[hetz]

It's not nice to hate children.

[Questionable]

It's not nice to hate children.

Neither is having an ugly face. PWNED.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Children are fucking awesome, lql, the whole idea is cool as shit.

[Igor]

nah kids are cool. ofc they might occasionally be kinda annoying but it's not that big a deal really. i'm not really sure if ever want kids of my own really but that doesn't mean i generally don't like them.

[Arlekino]

Well I am now grandmother, yes we do with my husband dreaming leaving England move somewhere else but oh what about children even their are adults now. So kind of adult kids restricting our freedoms.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

Some annoy the shit out of me, but there's really cool ones. I know one kid whos probably 5 or 6, and he's super funny, and probably the only kid I would consider "cute". I like him, but a lot are really annoying.

[Comrade Samuel]

I loved being one but looking at today's kids in particular they just more bothersome and less agreeable than any preceeding generation.

Maybe it just my imagination but I seriously think most of today's kids will be tomarrow's criminals and sociopaths.

[Igor]

I loved being one but looking at today's kids in particular they just more bothersome and less agreeable than any preceeding generation.

Maybe it just my imagination but I seriously think most of today's kids will be tomarrow's criminals and sociopaths.

you do realize this is pretty much what every old generation thinks about the next one, right?