I'm twenty five and I work with children in a nursery setting, so, 3-5 year olds. You can guess where I stand on it, as if I didn't love kids I couldn't do what I do. That said there's no rule that everyone in society has to like them, or even ever be parents, but I think it needs stressing that the children in question (for the most part) aren't intentionally flipping on some kind of `annoy` switch, as you put it. Children mimic what they see, and the thing they care most about it bonding with their carers (generalising here, of course)
Sure, sometimes they know exactly what they're doing, but children are just little people, and it's not okay to take a person and judge that person by all of the peers they have that share a quality (in this case age)
I think the rule of thumb that should be followed is if you really want to distance yourself from having anything to do with children, by all means, do it. Never do it to the individual child that cares about you in some way though, be it through family or friends, because that will make a difference.
Sure, sometimes they know exactly what they're doing, but children are just little people, and it's not okay to take a person and judge that person by all of the peers they have that share a quality (in this case age)
I think the rule of thumb that should be followed is if you really want to distance yourself from having anything to do with children, by all means, do it. Never do it to the individual child that cares about you in some way though, be it through family or friends, because that will make a difference.