Hating Kids Isn’t A Personality Trait
We’ve all been in public and encountered a parent (or parents) who are really struggling. Their child is loud, unruly, causing a scene, and, for lack of a better word, generally being a nuisance. While this wouldn’t phase many of us, there’s sure to be an individual rolling their eyes or even blatantly asking the parents to calm their kid down. But hating kids isn’t a personality trait, so why do we treat it like it is?
These are the facts: Kids are needy, messy, noisy, bratty, and sometimes sticky for unknown reasons. You never have to guess what they’re thinking or feeling, and there’s something we can all learn from that. It’s perfectly understandable to not be comfortable or at ease around them, but outright hatred of kids has sown an attitude in our culture that isolates parents, putting them in a “not worth our time” box in their childless friend groups and enabling the mindset that all children are a scourge, not a blessing.