Before I had a kid and was therefore exposed to other little kids when he is playing with them.
:rolleyes:Man some kids(shit a LOT of kids) are just total ASSHOLES, I mean everything from brats to violent even sexually suggestive/creepy. My son is two and there are four year olds I don’t want him playing with because I’ve seen everything from attempted garrotting to “sexual harassment”.
Like there is this kid that is ALWAYS shaking his butt in my kid’s face, even holding him down to rub his ass on him to the point I’m like no thats it you’re not playing with him anymore unsupervised. I’m not gonna bother myself speculating on what their home life is like, I’m just saying thats it you’re not playing nice.
“There’s this whole thing out there about how kids are so innocent and pure. That’s bullshit, man. Kids are malicious little fuckers. They totally jump on any bandwagon and rip on the weak guy at any chance. They say whatever bad word they can think of. They are total fucking bastards, but for some reason everyone has kids and forgets about what they were like when they were kids.”
They really, really are. And yes, we have a weird amnesia about that. I think it’s a survival of the species thing. If we didn’t forget/deny how horrid little kids can be, we wouldn’t make more of them.
The good news is that about 87% of them grow up to be perfectly functional and pleasant human beings, at least until you put alcohol into them. Then they’re pretty much ass wiggling assholes again.
My wife when talking to other parents about preschools heard about a infamous little girl who has been kicked out of several for using unsupervised naptime as a chance to hold down and ride boys who are not appreciative. I feel bad for the girls parents, talk about an awkward situation explaining why your daughter is getting kicked, but then if your kid is the one being harassed you wouldn’t find it funny.
There is a kid who I won’t trust with any toy that can be easily ruined, like lets say bubbles. He will ask to blow some, then promptly dump it out on the ground, thats just how he rolls he is the fun ruiner and you gotta watch out for him.
I love how people act as if tweens, teens, young adults, adults and seniors can’t be assholes, and act as if young children are the only things that ever are annoying.
I’m not following, actually I kind of expect it in older kids and teens to adults, you just don’t really expect the four year old to say “fuck you faggot” and kick someone in the stomach.
Well, some kids are assholes, some are not. If The Kidlet was any more innocent he’d have a halo - The Kidlette wants to grow up to be one of Bette Davis’ most manipulative characters and already has the “manipulative” part down pat. Brother and sister… My cousin who never had brakes, well, never had them; the one who’s an asshole was already one before he could do more than eat, shit, barf and sleep, and so forth. You can’t always see the future grownup in the child, but you can see a looot of what that grownup will be like.
There’s also the ridiculous meme that children don’t lie. What a crock. When they’re not outright lying, they’re saying whatever they think you want to hear. I’m not fond of small children, particularly boys, who seem to personify the pure, unsocialized and aggressive male psyche. Allowed to continue in that vein, they become the bully, the loner, the thug. I’m a lousy grandfather.
Isn’t that the thing, though. Children that age are unable to predict consequences, for them or their victim. Decision making is still immature in the extreme. Their little brains are not yet fully developed yet.
That said, it’s all about parental intervention, during these years. They are learning what’s appropriate, from the parents. But there are lots of parents who use the concept of " helicopter" parenting as a good excuse for letting their children run wild. And some parents remember being little pricks themselves, but look how awesome they turned out! Sometimes it’s just that they don’t remember being corrected, so they think their chid will just ‘get it’ without any direction from them!
Excuses for ‘non parenting’ abound these days it seems. I think you should be concerned that he will begin to repeat the behaviour, with other children, when he is older!
Children (well, most children) are unfocused reflections of their parents / home life.
At one point we had 3 nieghbor boys that I couldn’t stand. Then I met their parents, and found I couldn’t stand them either, but I better understood the boys…
The father once actually said to me; “Man, you must beat your kids, they’re so well behaved”.
I told him point blank; “You don’t have a clue how to be a parent, do you.”
I feel bad for the girls parents, talk about an awkward situation explaining why your daughter is getting kicked, but then if your kid is the one being harassed you wouldn’t find it funny.