Is it wrong to hate small children?

[Cycloptomese]

I do not like to be around children at all. They're loud, obnoxious, and they run around screaming and spilling red Kool-Aid all over white carpet. I just don't like them.

That said, I have a seventeen year old son. I am filled with all sorts of these types of personality conflicts.

 

[Aesir23]

While I would say 'hate' would be going a little far it's not that unusual to dislike children. I really dislike toddlers but that's for a couple of different reasons. For some reason I'm extraordinarily sensitive to sound so I hate loud, incessant, high pitched noises because it can easily give me a horrible headache and I dislike little lap dogs for the exact same reason. The other is because they're too young to corrupt with video games which makes me suspect I would be a far better aunt than a parent.

Oddly enough, while I dislike toddlers they seem to love me.

 

[K12]

As long as they aren't your own children it doesn't really matter. Though like really "hating" rather than just being extremely irritated by them is over the top. People with disabilities can be loud and annoying sometimes too (and children do sort of have a disability, a life experience deficiency disorder you might say) but hating them is really unfair.

For the love of God, don't be one of those tutting sneering dickheads who glare at parents when their kids are being excitable and childish.

Personally I love kids, even the horrible ones, but I DO really hate their parents sometimes.

 

[RedRockRun]

I don't care if it's right or wrong. I can't fucking stand children. I hate babies, toddlers, little kids, middle schoolers, all of them. I've hated them since I was a little kid. I used to turn around or hide the baby pictures my parents kept around the house too because I hated the idea that I used to be a baby. There's just something about the way babies look that has always enraged me. Onto older children though, I have legitimate reasons to hate them, given my early school experiences. They're a bunch of lemmings easily led around by pop culture, and they have such little in the way of morals. Middle schoolers are the worst. I wouldn't object at all if everyone from 6-8th grades was shipped off to isolated camps in the desert until high school. The more corporal punishment the better as well. Little shits.

 

[william1657]

The worst part is now I've gotten to the point in my life where social events and gathering are going to based around and revolve around babies and small children, since nearly everyone is getting married and/or having kids now so you've got to fake enthusiasm for them.

I'm 25, so I don't know if I'm quite at this point yet, but I haven't had anyone be too offended when I said "I don't like babies." I don't imagine the reaction would be too different for "I don't like kids." Of course, I've been saying this for 15 years, but you've been lying till now so you might get a few "...but you liked [X]'s baby pictures! Why not mine?" or "You went to [Y]'s son's birthday party! Why not my son's?" if you all of a sudden change your tune.

But we're supposed to play nice. Not complain or expect people with children to be considerate of others. That the rest of us are just supposed to deal with noises that make us seriously consider that a Hellgate has opened and demons are crawling out.

Yeah, this sucks (it really, really sucks). I wish some parents would have a little more respect for other people. I realize that in most cases there isn't much a parent can do to calm their spawn down, but forcing everyone else in a room/theater/restaurant to put up with it rather than stepping outside is more than a bit disrespectful. The exception being when that parent is unable to leave the room with the monster for whatever reason.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Maybe playing telltale's The walking dead could help ease you towards less hate directed at these developing humans? Ehh, it is only natural that they would be annoying to many. I used to hate, but they aren't all spoilt shits. It depends on many factors as to whether they veer closer to a kind temperament. I wouldn't like to spend time with them, such...precious time. Ticking, falling away. Cannot be wasted on these childish games! Teaching, however, is time a better spent.

 

[jklinders]

I think I can handle small children. listening to supposedly adult servers at work carry on in a raucous cacophony like they are still in kindergarten on the other hand...not so much.

It would be nice if parents would undertake to get their kids to work a bit towards manners and decorum, but the standard set depends on the age. Very very small children are going to be loud, you just hold your nose and deal with it.

 

[Cycloptomese]

Giant racecar shaped grocery carts clogging up the isles! Why?! Leave the dream-killers at home.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Ok here's a question: does the thought that you hate children cross your mind even when you're, say, at home alone watching Game of Thrones for example? Or only when you're around children?

Because if the latter, that doesn't IMO imply hatred of children themselves, but rather their presence. If you can tolerate children as long as they stay away from you and keep quiet, that doesn't IMO mean that you hate children. But if you actually think that you hate children, and have thoughts about wanting to hurt them, even when they're not around and you haven't seen one for days, then that's a bit... unusual, shall we say. If you're visiting someone and their kid is sitting in a corner, reading a book completely silent, are you still aggravated by their presence?

 

[Poetic Nova]

Myself? Hate? No. Dislike? Yes, alot actually.

I may have repressed the first 18 years of my life, but I do remember being a little ass all the time.
More than enough reason not to create offspring. Which I wouldn't be able to anyway when I'm transitioned completely.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Only when parents can't get them to stay quiet in public, like at the movies or on the bus.

 

[Twintix]

Nah. Nuthin' wrong widdat.

I dislike kids sometimes too. Every Friday between 5 PM and 6 PM, to be precise; The kids in my taekwondo group have absolutely zero discipline, and it irritates the everloving shit out of me. They never stop talking no matter how many times you tell them off (seriously, they can keep their fucking mouths shut for 4 seconds at most before they start babbling again), they rarely listen to me, some of them just do nothing but whine and the focus is just not there. It's also worse whenever the head instructor is absent.

But God forbid I raise my voice or actually have some expectations of them, because then I'll just be reported to my instructor that I'm too hard on them. Yes, that seriously happened once; There were two little shitty brats who refused to be quiet and would not listen to me, and when I told them off, not being any harsher with them than I was with any of the other kids, the parents called my instructor and said that I apparently scared them so bad that they didn't return again after one more session.

God. Some days, you just wish you could smack them. One of my instructors who had to stand in for me once even told me that I must have the patience of a saint to be able to put up with them every week. [footnote]I don't, by the way. I just have a really good poker face in regards to my constant seething anger at absolutely everything.[/footnote]

Oh, and also whenever I'm in the vicinity of crying, screaming babies and their shithead parents who don't even try to calm them down. I'm very sensitive to loud noise, so this is extra grating. And I seem to encounter them everywhere; On the town, at bus stations, on air planes[footnote]Seriously, if there's a screaming baby on the same flight as me, chances are it's seated in the seat just behind or just in front of me.[/footnote], in cafés, in stores...even my mom has commented on how weird it is. I believe that I was cursed by a baby deity for some wrong-doing I did in a previous life.
The worst part is that I know that this is completely irrational; They're babies, they don't know better, they're just signaling that something's wrong. But my disdain for noise outweighs my reasoning at those times.

Someday, I'll probably grow past this. But that day is not today.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I despise children. Can't stand to be near them, don't want to interact with them. The adage "children should be seen and not heard" is music to my ears.

I also despise grown children who think that the entire would should conform to their picayune little dislikes, unless they're willing to pay for babysitting for those children they don't want around them.

 

[Fdzzaigl]

Worked in retail for a year. So yeah, fuck the little shit-producing tubes.
Seriously, the total lack of respect and complete devastation and destruction kids up to puberty years and even beyond will cause without thinking twice is astounding.

Makes me laugh at anyone who claims kids that age are capable of independent thought.

Really though, it's the many parents who totally lack the ability to discipline and teach their kids who are to blame. They're the ones who really deserve a slap across the face.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Being annoyed by them is understandable.

Actually hating them is...a little irrational.

Yeah, people throw that word around a lot, when I think they mean they really dislike something. Hate is very powerful and rather hostile.

 

[Paragon Fury]

Being annoyed by them is understandable.

Actually hating them is...a little irrational.

Yeah, people throw that word around a lot, when I think they mean they really dislike something. Hate is very powerful and rather hostile.

Well, referring to the earlier post, I don't actively think about hurting them or anything like that. Its just that I despise their presence.

Though...it definitely becomes hatred and thoughts of violence when we enter hour 3 of straight full-on screaming and wailing and it's 1:00AM and I have work in the morning and this is the third time this month and now I'm wondering if I should bury all three bodies together as a family or spread them out to make them harder to find....

 

[Odbarc]

Children are mostly unintentionally selfish. If you can't handle that, needing to be patient or willing to give up a little bit of your own time and energy for someone else, children should not be near you.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Kids are just irritating, it's in their nature. I like playing with my niece and nephew well enough, but man, do they get annoying over an extended period of time.

It's all part of being an adult though, you have to bear it because they don't know any better.

 

[Sampler]

From an evolutionary standpoint, probably not.

Children not your own are a threat to your own progenies security so you would do away with them to ensure security of resources for them once born.

Of course, this probably means you're not very evolved, if you still have these caveman urges..

 

[EMWISE94]

I personally don't like being around children mostly because they're fragile creatures and I have this odd fear that if anything bad happens to them within my proximity I'll automatically be blamed... well I guess it originated from that one time when some lady who was over at my house for a casual get together my parents were throwing, left her kid with me, said I should entertain him and whatnot. 5 mins after she leaves he just starts bawling, I didn't touch him or nothing, I offered him some of my toys at the time (I was 11, he was like 4) and apparently he took offense to that. Mother comes rushing back in asking what I did, I plead innocence but to no avail.

Other instances include children randomly following me around and then somehow getting hurt and once again blame falls on me. So yeah, I just don't like being around kids, never wanna have kids either, lest they spontaneously combust whilst in close proximity to me.