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Apr 16, 2025
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I will never understand the people who say they “hate kids”. You were a kid once, too, I can’t wait to have kids someday, but if that’s not for you, great. But they are human beings simply at a different stage of life! This post is so true.
Apr 17, 2025
As a parent to a very inquisitive toddler, I can attest that more adults need this mindset. Would be infinitely more wonderful to know that people would be kinder + more patient + more understanding to her.
Apr 17, 2025
I work with kids and kindness goes a looooong way, especially when I truly feel like the world is teaching them to be mean & cruel. Even when at my worst I try and remember to breath and remind myself that it’s their first time on earth too and we’re all just trying to figure it out together 🌟
Apr 17, 2025
I help out an Ngo to teach kids and being kind to them goes such a long way, what most people don’t understand is that even our smallest act affects children significantly so please remember to just be nice. A lot of kids I help out have problems because the adults in their life don’t treat them as living breathing human beings but just an extension of something they can control so kindness goes a long way in shaping the lives of children
Apr 16, 2025
@TIRAMISU I’m so glad you’re doing this work. And yes, people treat children like possessions or pets rather than human beings. It’s very strange, but I’m so glad there are many others out there being kind and acting as that positive role model.
Apr 16, 2025
also it takes a village! if we are all kinder to kids and better examples then the people who have them can manage better and society will be better for it once they are grown! like the people who hate kids and are dismissive of them are the same ones that complain about the little things adults do wrong too
Apr 16, 2025
@MOONBEAMS Yeah, my partner and I have talked about the benefit of every person having baseline childcare knowledge too. Not so they can be parents but so you're in a better position to help friends and people in your community in a time of need. We get so myopic about our own choices that we fail to plan for our role in the larger picture.
Apr 16, 2025
@ZENLIKEME that's not something I had thought about although I guess I already do have that from teaching and taking care of my friend's siblings but you guys are so right!
Apr 16, 2025
I don't ever want kids of my own. But they're these little beings who are learning and trying life out and being themselves. They have so much to worry about ahead of them, why not make it a little easier in the brief moment I'm around?
I also had a moment last summer when two young girls ran into the park washroom I was in to hide from these boys who kept trying to spray them with water guns. They asked if they could walk with me back through the park and in the moment I would have protected them with my own life. Thankfully, it was really just a matter of walking with the kids through the park and explaining to the boys that they can keep playing with each other, but the girls said they were done and to respect that they said no.
And they just DID. Kids take in so much of what we say, it's so easy to just be kind.
Apr 16, 2025
i’m the same way; i love kids, but i’m also easily worn out by them. not wanting kids is fine, but saying, “i hate kids” has always seemed so harsh to me. sure, they can be annoying sometimes, but they didn’t ask to be in this world anymore than anyone else did - and they are owed the same kindness, maybe even more, because of that. being kind to them will hopefully make them kind adults, and we need way more of that today.
Apr 16, 2025
@CAROLINEBREEDEN 100%! The world is harsh enough. You don’t need to prepare your kids for that too much. They’ll learn the hard way, like we all do. Instead, teach children kindness, resilience, equanimity, and the tools that will help them blossom into caring adults and navigate the assholes who weren’t modeled kindness.
Apr 16, 2025
