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11 months agoI remember feeling the same way as you, I definitely “hated children” for a long time. They are noisy and sticky and almost always badly behaved and their parents are idiots. But at some point I realized that this is just the nature of children, and it’s complete and utter folly to hate things for their own nature. Will you just wake up every morning, look up, and go: “Ughhh, blue again???!!!” So you accept things as they are and you practice a little self control, because kids are emotional creatures and they will forget your words but never forget how you made them feel for their entire lives on a day when they were excited about something and an adult they trusted made them feel afraid.
Thanks for sharing the Stephen Smith quote, I had not made that connection yet.