I wouldn’t say I hate children, but they are very small part of my life. About the only ones I encounter are in encounters at the store or a restaurant. But that was my choice, I choose to not have children and I choose to rarely be around them. I prefer to be around people that are at least 21 if not 25 and up.
I do find myself more sympathetic to the self proclaimed child haters, though I do find it a bit odd to actually hate someone just for belonging to a certain age group. I can get apprehension or a ‘I don’t trust you to behave in what I feel is a civilized manner until you show me different’ feeling, but actual hate seems rather strong.
Where in the world would you get the idea that any parent here is advocating the idea that their children should be able to do any of these things? Children should be taken out in public. They should be taught proper behaviour, and will learn it by being taken to task, right?. Certainly, they will never learn proper behaviour if kept solely at home.
You know, it is funny, if this were a different thread we might almost agree. I have a pretty big rottenweiler–about 150 pounds of big. Some people think that he and my little guy should not exist together. I give them about the same amount of credit I give you.
Ok, how about if we define hate, since some of us seem to be operating from different definitions (from Merriam Webster) : 1 a: intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury b: extreme dislike or antipathy
My hatred for kids falls under definition b there. I hate kids like I hate bbq chips, mustard, pickles, or large open bodies of water. I hate kids like I hate getting up early in the morning. I don’t belong to the Ku Klux Kid Haters, I’m not going to burn crosses in the yard of people who have children. I don’t go to places where kids are likely to be in great numbers. When I have to go somewhere they are allowed, I ignore them. If one acts out, I will call them or their parents on it. If one rides their bike in my yard, I’ll yell at them to get off my lawn. That’s about the extent of it. I don’t hate people who have kids, and I don’t hate people who used to be kids. I strongly disagree with people who think they are entitled to inflict their screeching spawn upon the masses, but since there is no law against it, the best I can do is tell them off. I will grow to hate people who allow their kid to run around, scream, and break things in the store and make no effort to stop them, and then get all indignant when someone points out their bad parenting skills. To me, words are words, and hate isn’t any stronger than any other word.
And just in case you are too dense to get it, the typo is intentional. Most knee-jerk idiots see rottweiler and think that my dog is “just about to turn”. He is fully rott and I love to see my little guy play with him.
So, what I get from this, is that you dislike children–and hate that they exist? There are adult only places, really, whole communities who cater especially to your specifications: Public Places - Married No Kids. If you feel this strongly that you need to be removed from even the though of a child, Please support this business.
Nonsense, all kids deserve to grow up with a dog. Dogs are great for teaching people about love and kindness and tolerance. That said, I keep kids away from my dogs because they haven’t been socialized to kids and I don’t know how they may react. There is a little autistic boy down the street (who is 6 and doesn’t talk at all) whose favorite movie in the world is 101 dalmatians, and his parents used to allow him to walk down the street and into my yard unattended to pet my dalmatian. I walked him back numerous times and explained as nicely as I could that dalmatians on the whole aren’t good with kids, that he shouldn’t be on my property without my permission, and in fact he shouldn’t be roaming the neighborhood by himself, especially being a special needs kid. I finally had to have the police involved to keep hm away–I’m not going to be blamed if he loses a finger.
No, by my definition I hate kids, and I hate parents who allow them to act up. A polite, quiet kid minding his own business and doing no harm still falls under the category of kid, but he and his parents won’t hear me complain. And no offense, but the people on that website are self-entitled douchebags. I don’t think I should be able to go to Disneyland or on a cruise without seeing a kid. I label myself childless, not childfree.
OK, I get it, you hate kids. You also realize that you are creating your own reality, right? Your perception is your reality. As soon as you see a kid, you are looking for a reason to be pissed. In my book that means that you are not minding your own business. As I said earlier, IF my kid causes any sort of distrubance–we leave.
What is your issue? You, as far as I know, are happy in your lifestyle. I am sure that you can find a child free place to go. As humans we tend to group with our kind. Are you also inundated with breeders? Do tell.
Note, of course, the dishonest comparison of balancing people who have a problem with dogs with problematic children. An honest comparison would be comparing problematic dogs with problematic children, or, to compare people who hate dogs to people, like you, who hate children.
You don’t see why you’re on the correct side of one issue and not the other? Holy Jesus on toast, you’re clueless.
As soon as you see that someone doesn’t want to be around kids, you assume all sorts of things about that person?
As soon as I see a kid, I start planning my exit, if needed. If the kid stays quiet, then I’m happy to co-exist. If the kid starts screeching, I’m out of there in a couple of minutes. I’ll give the parent a few minutes to try to calm the kid down, but if Mom and Dad continue to talk to their friends at a higher volume to be heard over Bubba’s screams and wails that he wants dessert NOW, and ONLY dessert, then I don’t expect the parents to turn to him and straighten him out. Or even give him The Look.
Maybe we should have parenting licences. People would have to demonstrate that they could give The Look at will, and knew when it was appropriate.
No, as soon as I see a kid, I ignore it. I don’t want to interact with it, I don’t want to go near it. The kid has to DO something to get my attention in order to invoke my fury. But you go ahead and percieve whatever you want.
No issue at all. I thought there were some cool things in that link and appreciated you sharing it. It would be nice to take a cruise or other vacation that was adults only sometime. I didn’t say I wanted my life to never have children in it, I just thought that was an interesting idea. No need to be offended.
First of all, I do not think that I can look at someone and assume that they do not want to be around kids; that being said I am quite sure that I can recognize you and your ilk. And really, isn’t that your little passive aggressive point, anyway?
You have already shown me that you don’t care what I say. I mean really, as soon as you see a kid you pull out your packet of pills. I think that you lead a sad life, what with all the health problems, your irrational hatred of the C word (go tell Eddie Z) and your sad clinging to your position regarding children.