Poll: Do you hate kids?

[HentMas]

I don´t hate them, i am a father after all, and whenever my boy trows a tantrum i usually get on one knee, tell him firmly "LOOK LOVE, STOP SCREAMING, I AM NOT GOING TO DO/BUY/GET WHAT YOU WANT, YOU SHOULDN'T CRY OVER SUCH SMALL THINGS, I´M NOT YOUR MOTHER AND YOU MAKING SUCH A FUSS OVER SOMETHING SO SIMPLE DOESN'T MAKE ME PITY YOU, IT ANNOYS ME AND MAKES ME ANGRY, DO YOU WANT TO MAKE ME ANGRY?"

he usually stops yelling and sobs a few times, then i ask him "you finished?, you all right now?" to which he replies by cleaning his eyes with his sleeve "yes", "seriously?", "yes"
then he will sob some more, ask me much more calmly if i can do/buy/get whatever it is he wanted and i tell him "no, love, i don´t want to/have money/think you should have that" and he cries some more, but much more calmly, then i take him in my arms and try to distract him with something else.

If he cries i console him, but if he trows a tantrum i scold him very very severely... i don´t know if i´m doing the right thing, i am a divorced man, but i realize that the kid usually haves more respect and listens more to me than his mother, who as you may have guessed would have given him the toy (or whatever) the moment he started crying

EDIT: My boy is 3 at the time, so i think its a good ground work for when he is older

 

[Ham_authority95]

I don't hate them particularly more so than any other group of humans.

Besides, hate is boring. Indifference has many more rewards.

 

[roostuf]

only when they are being little shits or when they are on the internet trying to win an argument/starting an argument.

 

[AntonyD]

I hate people over 21 who think they're smart cause they're older than most, cocksuckers.
Kids aren't great but as soon as they develop a decent imagination then they can be pretty cool to be around. Unless they're one of those entitled little shits who don't shut the hell up when their mother says "no".

 

[NOHC]

Yes. Most of them.

The one I like is my own.

 

[Parugraph]

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I think your doing a wonderful job getting to their level is the best way to communicate with them so they understand your feelings and what they did wrong really happy you shared your story with me. =)

 

[HentMas]

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yay! i´m a good parent!!!, funnily enough, his mom is the one that told me how i should treat him (she read it in a book somewhere), but i still have to see her actually deny something to him XD

 

[eatenbyagrue]

GOOD GODS YES, I HATE CHILDREN.

I got called in my Child Development and Psychology class ('cause my professor caught me sleeping) and was asked how to hold a baby.

My "instructions" were closer to "how to hold a smelly dog" or "how to hold a ticking timebomb"

 

[OldAccount]

It's not that they're loud, selfish little bastards (which they are) It's the way they stare at you as if they're silently judging you (again, which they are)

 

[Sarge034]

I don't hate kids overall. I hate the little shits that can't behave in public.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

I hate babies. Most kids are cool though.

 

[sb666]

i cant stand children

 

[Ailia]

Depends on the age. "Kids" is a little vague.
I absolutely despise babies and can barely tolerate anything younger than 4. After that, they mysteriously become adorable. I taught a child's class at my Taekwon-do school for a few years and loved working with the 5-10 year olds (the ones that would listen, at least; the others were just infuriating).
And then once they hit the tween years I hate them once more... There's jsut something about their mob mind-set that scares me. Plus they don't listen to anything you have to say. Ever.

tl;dr I voted yes, but I really only like kids between 5-10, before and after they're evil little buggers and I hate them.

 

[Zeema]

i hate everyone under 18 bunch of Obnoxious snooty arseholes that believe everything should belong to them. Not To Mention they say '******' like a Homophobic Machine Gun

 

[Parugraph]

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Yeah I was a little vague on the age range kid is a wide spectrum after all.
Some children seem to go trough that I dont need to do what an grown up says fase that can be good or bad depends tough.

Really taekwon-do my brother used to teach rugby to kids and also had his share of drama when teaching them also depends on the group tough just my experience dont hold it as the truth tough really nice people like you are around to give up their free time for youngins.

And I never consider folks posts as tldr.

 

[tonkid11]

I tend to judge on a case by case basis, generally if a kid is annoying its the parents lack of ability to correct, or because they don't get them to exercise enough. what I guess Im trying to say is the concept of children is fine with me but I have met or encountered those that make me reconsider.

 

[GreigKM]

I don't hate them
There lack of understanding just makes them unfit for conversation
Thus I avoid them until they've aged enough to know stuff
Not just spout random things they've learned.

 

[l3o2828]

I am uncomfortable around kids, specially when they act like little shits.
and even tough im still young and beatiful (lol) I find Toddler and Teenagers to be equal shits, annoying , evil beings.
I dont like being around kids,and i definetly do not like kids as a whole.
maybe if they would all be quiet and mature the moment they are born then maybe yes.
and since im asking for the impossible im going to go ahead and ask for the whole humanity to mature already too.

 

[HeatproofShAdOw]

There all not bad, so to say. It's just the ones who think that they're cool or better then anyone else are the ones that annoy me. The real loud, obnoxious, ones?