I never play with kids. we have a big family and neverending supply of babies, but I don’t enjoy playing with them. I like kids 10+ or around that age. the age you don’t have to watch them all the time and you can talk to them a little bit.
anyways that is something I learned about myself, I don’t enjoy playing with young kids, changing diapers, and making baby faces
When my kids were little i really only liked them. Wasn’t fond of other little children mostly because other children weren’t taught to not scream.
In teenage years i really like all my kids friends
They are laid back and fun
I don’t have any kids, 7 nieces and nephews ranging from 20 years old to two years old. I was 14 when my first niece was born.
seems with kids, they like young people and gravitate towards them. it was a little uncomfortable when I was younger. now that im a man, they barely pay attention to me, and want to play with their cousins instead
I don’t feel comfortable talking to children, in case their parents think I am weird, because of my mental illness, I have a teenage daughter so at least I have got one child to talk to.
i made hot dogs for my friend and her daughter and niece last week, they are adorable and i like having a joke with them she remembered the song i sang at xmas and put it on, so young and such a good memory before she even started primary school
I like my kids and kids that are well behaved. I hate screaming, bratty kids. Mine aren’t perfect, but they know what is and is not acceptable behavior. (no screaming, keep hands to oneself, respect others and their property, etc)
@Daze mentioned older kids watching the younger. Not here. I only allow that once in a while when they ask for it. Like the teen taking the youngest to the library or park. We don’t believe in the built in babysitter thing like a lot of people seem to.
I lived with my sister and my 5 year old nephew for three years. I used to play with my nephew. I gave him rides on my back when I was on all fours. We played with his little wooden “Thomas the Tank Engine” train set. I wanted to be the cool uncle and I think I was.
Kids in general were never my favorite but when I lived with my sister and nephew, I got along fine with both of them. I used to go pick him up from his school with my sister and I met his teacher and I played basketball with him and his friends and toured his classroom. So I feel I fulfilled my quota of being nice to kids.
But I have nothing against kids now, I see kids all the time on my street and I give them one glance and don’t bug them and they don’t bug me. I used to not like kids but at age 57 I can get along with them and I have no grudges with them.
Hell, if I’m not mistaken, I think I might have been a kid once too.