can u handle kids???

@pav_28 (168)
India
July 9, 2007 3:59am CST
i like kids....but i hate it when i hav to baby sit....its very difficult 2 handle them when they start crying....
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@dopey22girl (3319)
• United States
9 Jul 07
Well some people..it's their thing, and others it's not. Your avatar is adorable by the way. My life pretty much is children. When I'm not working with children at my job, I am babysitting. I love kids sooo much! I think they are great and amazing, and even adults can learn stuff from children.
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@pav_28 (168)
• India
9 Jul 07
i'll tel u something funny what happened with me.....i hav a cousin sister who came over to our house today....and her son is such a monster....the moment he saw me he started throwing things at me....i was sitting on the dinning, he came from the back and pulled my hair...i was so irritated....my cousin told me that my face resembled to 1 of his teachers....mayb he was taking revenge....
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@ackars (1942)
• India
9 Jul 07
I like kids a lot but I find it very difficult to handle them especially kids of age group 1-3.I just cant keep them silent for more than a minute.
@mmiller26 (1930)
• Canada
10 Jul 07
It's a lot different when the kids are your own. I love my son and he's a really good boy, so thankfully, we don't have too many issues that would make parenting awful. He has his moments where he's an absolute turkey, but they're so few and far between that it's not even worth mentioning. Yesterday I was sick..well, I still am, but my husband had to go to Toronto, so I was home with him all day. He could have made it a miserable experience, since he was cooped up inside. Instead, he pretty much took care of me, getting me things to drink, cuddling with me and telling me jokes to make me laugh. Not bad for a 5 year old! Other kids though, that's different. I don't have the authority to discipline other people's kids, and they certainly get on my nerves. I see other parents letting their kids do things that I would never, ever tolerate from my own child. And I'm sure those parents wonder why other people think their kids are brats. And a lot of parents don't have any inkling of common decency or manners themselves, so how can they teach their kids? As for the crying, that's pretty simple. Babies cry because that's the only way for them to communicate. The hard part, obviously, is listening to it while you try to figure out what the problem is. Is he hungry? And if he was just fed, does he have to burp? Tired? Needs to be changed? Too hot? Needs to be held and cuddled? It can make you feel frazzled if it carries on for too long. But with your own kids, you develop a pattern and start to figure out pretty quickly what the problem is.
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• United States
11 Jul 07
I have a kid, that is mine, so it's not a matter of whether or not I can handle her. Being her mom and putting up with the crying is just part of the job. If you don't have kids yet, my best suggestion would be to wait a while. Kids cry all the time and throw tantrums too. That's the stage we are in. She won't listen to me, and wants to do everything the opposite of what I say. It's not good! Not at all. They're lots of fun to babysit, but being a parent is a full time job. And, I've only got one. I can only imagine what it would be like to be mother to more than one kid. No wait, I can't imagine! And, hopefully I won't have to find out.
@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
9 Jul 07
Considering I have three childern of my own i guess you can say I can handle childern. However I remember when I was younger how much I hated watching other peoples childern. They would crying for their moms and stuff too. Just keep them really busy and play with them and they will get over that.
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