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World-Hero21 — Kinda...Sorta...Not really.
Published: 2018-08-11 07:20:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 14916; Favourites: 70; Downloads: 0
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Add-on to these stamps, and kinda inspired by someone's recent rant at me.
For one thing, I'm scared of childbirth.
...which is why I wish I didn't have a uterus, because mine is going to be useless. Yeah, sorry parents. No grandkids from me. Unless the STEM field makes advancement on artificial wombs, you might have to rely on my little brother for those instead.
And second...A lot of parents these days seem to be afraid of using any form of discipline. Especially when they're out in public and they let their kids run amok everywhere and be loud, noisy, and disruptive.
Almost every single time I see some obnoxious screaming child out in public, their parents let them climb on top of furniture, and basically let them treat every place like a playground...It makes me not want kids even more. 
"BUT THEY'RE JUST KIDS! 
Yeah, but...If you spoil them rotten by letting them do whatever they want and giving them whatever they want, even if it's just to keep them quiet and make them stop bothering you, then they're gonna grow up thinking "WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT AND CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING! " ...Aaaand that's how they become spoiled assholes when they're older. 
You also don't want to control every aspect of their lives, or they'll end up being incredibly rebellious. Of course I still rebelled against mine anyway despite my decent upbringing, so I think every kid will still go through that phase at some point...But if you let them have their freedom, while still laying down a few restrictions, their rebellious phase won't be so horrible. The worst I did was avoid my punishment by finding my parents' hiding spots where they confiscated my favorite stuff. That's about it. 
I fully understand many kids have special needs...Autism, Asperger's, etc, which unfortunately causes these types of symptoms in kids. But I've known plenty of people with those disorders and they still learned how to behave like civilized human beings anyway. I have ADHD, social anxiety, and depression and I exhibited some of these issues as a child too. And yet, I think I still turned out to be a somewhat decent person. :T
And don't get me wrong, there are plenty of kids who are great. One of the most heartfelt, motivating thing anyone has ever said to me came from a kid. And I tend to hang out with the teenagers at family parties, and kinda forget that I'm no longer a teen myself. I think that's mostly an occupational hazard though; as an animator, I seem to relate more to kids than adults and I have a natural childish disposition.
But I've also been treated rudely by kids too. I was once acting as a lunch supervisor for the middle-school grades at my old school. A lot of the kids in my little brother's class knew me/my family well and started playing harmless-but-really-annoying pranks on me during lunch (like shaking up a can of soda and calling me over to "help" them open it...Only for it to foam and gush all over my hands.
And the really noisy, squealing babies suddenly make me hate babies. 
I got lucky with some of the kids I babysat. My little brother was a rather cheerful, non-fussy baby, hardly ever cried.
...And then there are some brats that make me hate kids. And since more and more parents don't seem to want to show any discipline to their kids these days, they're making me want kids less and less. Maybe not even adopt one...My career alone is stressful. Adding taking care of a kid would triple that stress, I think...
My bf isn't interested in kids either...
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