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I worked with babies for several years in a volunteer job, and I love 'em! Yes, they're noisy and messy...but I always kept in mind that babies must be going through a scary time (of course, they're not yet self-aware, so they don't even know it...) in some ways, they're like us, they have a major barrier to communication. If we can see past their offensive noisyness and try to understand them, we can learn (and teach them) so much! Screaming kids and barking dogs have more to do with how the parents and owners respond to and manage them, and I have a little less tolerance for them...
I don't mind babies. It's toddlers I don't like, when they get to that stage where they have temper tantrums out in public and want to get their own way, and the more grown-ups say the word ''no'', the more they scream louder, until it reaches a point where the noise of it frightens me. If a small child is crying for a reason, like falling over and hurting itself, or has a pain or something, I don' mind so much, although I don't like any child crying, but it's still not as frustrating as seeing a child being naughty and screaming for no reason. It really makes me feel agitated, especially in shops or on the bus. The whole reason why I won't go on a really long flight on a plane is because the chance that I'll be the one to have a screaming brat sitting in the seat right behind me the whole way. Imagine that! Especially when you're somebody like me who can't stand the sound of screaming. I think I'll rather anything than having a kid behind me the whole way. My friend is going to Hawaii, and is getting 2 planes, and altogether the journey is going to take 19 hours. Imagine they have the same screaming kid near them the whole time! At least a crying baby will go to sleep at some point, but a toddler probably won't if it's a naughty hyperactive type. I'm just going to France, which is only about an hour long journey, if that. I will not fly anywhere out of Europe, because I could not stick it on a plane for hours on end with kids. There's bound to be one sitting right near me.
Why can't small children be like lion cubs? Lion cubs can't roar until they're older, and why can't kids be like that? Being unable to scream at the top of it's voice until it reaches an age where it has developed it's verbal skills.
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