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I love my own kids. I like well-behaved kids. One good example is I know two 10 year olds IRL. One gets disciplined at home and developed lots of cool interests that I enjoy talking with her about. The other has pushover parents and is quite frankly dumb as a bag of bricks, constantly follows me around trying to tell me how to live my life bc his parents brainwash him into acting like this. In this regard kids are like anyone else, whether or not they're likeable depends entirely on their own behavior. I try to make excuses for poorly behaved little kids (I'm talking like toddler age) but from my experience it's not hard to make them mostly behave either and no one is required to like your little demon just because it's small. I obviously won't call a sweet well behaved kid a little demon. I tend to judge the parents much more than the kid if I can't stand being around a kid. Until the teen years they mostly do what you teach them to or let them get away with.
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