Now, I'm one of the strange ones .... I have a child that I love dearly ... but in general I am not fond of children. I am of the old-fashioned (obviously!) school of thought that children should behave, listen, obey and be good .... with ALL adults. I don't like children who run amok. Yes, it's the parents' fault ... but I still don't like those kids.
My son is not perfect, but he has been taught manners and respect. As all children should be.
I own a boarding kennel, and it always makes me grind my teeth when I see mom dragging three dirty, whiny, loud kids out of the minivan and into my office ... just to drop off the dog for boarding. The kids are interrupting, touching things ... bleck. Why not leave them in the car?? I have a sign on the wall that says, "Pets welcome. Children must be leashed." The mom in the above example invariably reads it and laughs. I stare at her and her offspring with a straight face and say, "It's not a joke." It's my business, I can do that.
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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