wanderer

I have been with two kids visitors for the past few days. The big revelation is that kids are totally different species. Some reports say raising a kid roughly costs a family about hundred of thousand of dollars to the least. That is only the economic expense. A new born in a family completely shapes the lifestyle of a couple. New diet for the new species, new rules for preparing for food and clothes, hygiene has to be on highest level. No leftover, no spicy seasoning, milk has to be organic whole milk, fruit has to be peeled, clothes has to be washed separately and the material has to be clothing and fluffy. When the little queen claims she needs pee, it means 'right now!', whether you are on a remote section of highway, or in a hustling downtown street. Then there is constant rambling, giggling, running, they stop only after their mom uttered something in a authoritarian tone for three times. From time to time, there is shirking, crying, and a simple line, either a question or a statement, being repeated three hundred time within twenty minutes. The only time when they are quiet, it is when they are engaged in a TV show or a book, but this mostly happens just before lunch or dinner time. The persuasion process would usually last to the full length. Bearing a newly titled 'Uncle' before my name, obviously I am no good at dealing with the 7-year-old and the teenager. Reasoning doesn't work, giving suggestion or order doesn't apply, the lying or tricking only make me look silly in retrospect, they don't buy it. The experience  makes me appreciate all the mothers and the school teachers. It is a highly demanding job to take care of those littles. To me kids are outrageously anti-adult society.

Or I am anti-children?

Either way, I have to deal with them at all ages, sooner or later. I like toddlers dearly, their wavering poise on the ground glue my attention and fondness whenever it happens. But I can't cut off the kid being a baby or being more juvenile if I want to have my own child. Kids are species no one can look at lightly, because they are the master-lings of the future.