Do you like being around children?

MonkeySaving?

tyllwyd wrote: »

It just astonishes me that somehow it is OK to express a sweeping prejudice against a huge percentage of the members of our society - would it be OK to post a poll saying 'Do you like being around people of a certain skin colour' or 'do you like being around people of a certain sexuality' or people with a certain disability, or whatever. Children are people too, and they deserve to be treated and discussed with respect.

lol, get your do-gooder self back to mumsnet.

bleat bleat "won't somebody think of the children" bleat

tyllwyd

MonkeySaving? wrote: »

lol, get your do-gooder self back to mumsnet.

bleat bleat "won't somebody think of the children" bleat

Thank you for your mature and adult response.

jamsandwhich

Absolutely!

It is only around children you are able to play 'rabid dinosaurs', sing out of tune, crawl around on hands and knees under the dining table making such sounds as 'arrrghhurgh' without being sectioned as a complete loony:D

MissMoneypenny

Generali wrote: »

I thought I'd forgotten how much many English adults hate children. I've been reminded.

I've got family in Australia and Aussie friends (their families went over as convicts) and there is just a big a problem in Oz with childrens' behaviour getting worse, as there is over here, with many adults complaining there too. Gangs of children hanging around the malls are drawing lots of complaints from adults. Even the teachers are complaining.


"Even worse, the percentage of teachers complaining about rowdy students has increased each year since the first Australia-wide survey in 2005."
"Last week, Education Minister Julia Gillard convened a national conference in Canberra involving 150 school leaders from around Australia. Although her focus was on selling the Government's education revolution, it quickly became apparent that principals had other, more immediate and pressing things on their collective mind.
Foremost was classroom misbehaviour. The reality is that spending billions on school buildings and trying to attract quality graduates to teaching is useless if teachers cannot teach because of disruptive children who refuse to learn."
http://www.edstandards.com.au/index.php?education_standards_institute=102&archive=130

Most adults like, or can tolerate, well behaved children, in Australia and England.

There are always threads on the marriages board along the lines of "we were in a restaurant eating and I was letting my child wander around and she was going up to the other diners tables, but one of the people was nasty and asked me to keep my child at our table and I got very angry at that"

Those type of posts always reminds me of a trip on a riverboat with my children where when the boat docked, the skipper said to the passengers "please take your children by the hand so that they don't get left behind: if you don't want them, we probably won't want them either, for the same reason.":D

treliac

Generali wrote: »

I thought I'd forgotten how much many English adults hate children. I've been reminded.

So what's different in Oz?

treliac

Sublime wrote: »

I voted no, and I've got kids. :eek:

I love mine dearly, but it doesn't mean I like being around children generally.

I guess you sum it up in general. We have a natural desire to protect our own gene pool, I mean children, which doesn't usually extend to the wider population.

I love and respect all life but mostly from a distance!

Generali

treliac wrote: »

So what's different in Oz?

Most people like children. There's more tolerance of them and a higher standard of behaviour is required by other people.

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

Oh, you're serious

Guess again...

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Most people like children. There's more tolerance of them and a higher standard of behaviour is required by other people.

There's also more space for kids to be kids. When I was a kid in Aus school was much stricter than here too. I suspect from my family out there that while times have changed that's still the case.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

There's also more space for kids to be kids. When I was a kid in Aus school was much stricter than here too. I suspect from my family out there that while times have changed that's still the case.

Generally, a higher standard of behaviour is expected from both children and adults over here, strange as that may sound given the stereotypes.

olly300

Generali wrote: »

Generally, a higher standard of behaviour is expected from both children and adults over here, strange as that may sound given the stereotypes.

Oh so they have not had the fully encouraged individualistic or "Me me me" society like in the UK.

I like children but loads of parents leave a lot to be desired.

I've been shocked by some of the well behaved and well mannered children I've met in the and looked after in the UK, whose parents are simply monsters. No wonder there are so many unruly teens out there..........

Then again as per Hilary Clinton's !!!!!!!isation of a proverb - "It takes a village to raise a child."