Good with Children?

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Adult females are supposed to interact with children in a maternal way. I interact with them as though I'm a kid too. Also, I don't take the initiative to approach children and say things like, "Well, you're a cute little girl! What is your name?" (I've noticed a lot of adults do this.) As with adults, I only talk to them if they initiate the conversation. As with adults, I relate to some better than others.

Also, a lot of adults treat me like I'm really weird and therefore not trustworthy. A lot of the more "normal" adults act as though they don't want me around their children. Some act like they don't even want me around their dogs!

Yep, I interact with kids (up to about 7) better than adults. It's always been that way. I also don't have any trouble with eye contact with kids (I had a thread going about that a month or so ago).

Aww, yes i have 3 nephews, aged 9, 3 and 10 month and im quite good wth children!! !! !! !!
i like them
there well cuuute

i try no to talk down to them



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I'm either terrified of hurting them or afraid of being hurt by them. I usually avoid at all costs. I tend only to feel comfortable talking to people many years older then myself. Even 20 year olds can be quite daunting and unpredictable.

No kidding around topic

I have been a mother and dealt with children for 34 years. Babies are wonderfu., as I talk to them constantly, even if they are busy with something else. The terrible twos are tricky. I am more strict at this age, as I am with teens. Kids of other ages are simple (age 3-12). I speak to my adult daughter as an adult, and we discuss life on adult terms.

But am I really good with children? Probably not. I tend to be serious with them.

yes, my mother cared for childrens at home, there was always 3 or 4 kids between 6 months to 6 years at home (between my birth and about my 25y/o), and I have always play with them and all and they liked me a lot.

I have a 6yo daughter now and I'm a good father for her, she may have PPD-NOS also.

Whenever babies look at me, they go all wide-eyed. I can't help but laugh and say that they're probably thinking to themselves: "What is THAT?"


But other than babies, little kids like me. I don't know why, but I don't trouble myself over finding out. But now I'm curious...

Little kids run away from me most of the time. I can't be THAT scary!

Although, when my mother and I had a man board at our house once and he had a 3 year old daughter who stayed with him, too.
She really liked me, followed me everywhere, tried to copy what I do and even tried dressing like me! I guess you could say that I was her rolemodel for a while. At first it was just cute but after a while it was a bit weird as it lasted for atleast 3 months.

I hate it when babies and children 'lock on' to my face. I know they do it with everyone and they don't know they're doing it, but I HATE them staring at me. It's unnerving, rude and distracting

I'm good.

I'm very good with little kids. So I became a preschool teacher. That way I can hang out and be silly all day and no one cares.

I think they like that we/I take the world literally the same way they do.

also think they like being treated like people, instead of. . . widdle gogo dows who awe so cute!! !! !! !

because they are people. . .



I do well with kids of various sizes, and also with messed up teens. . . and I also have the issue of interacting as if one of them, which by and large works exceedingly well. The other day I got mistaken for one of the inmates at the "troubled teen treatment center" where I work. .

Kids seem to like me, but I really don't know how to interact with them for extended periods of time. I get tired, then I need to pull back. My nieces and nephews love me a lot, but I have a hard time connecting with them, or feeling like I am.

My parents were really on a babysitting kick, when I was teenager -- maybe to teach me to like child care. It wasn't a good scene, though. I was not a good babysitter, and frankly kids were not safe with me. I couldn't stay focused on them the way I needed to be.

But there were other neurological issues going on with me, so I don't think AS had/has much to do with this. Like, the aspie part of me "gets" kids and really enjoys them, but there's other stuff going on with me, that compromises my abilities in that area.

Maternal, I am not. Talk to me about biophysics or Apache server configuration, and we're all set...

I often feel that I'm in the wrong "expertise" as I have 2 small children.

Generally, children can see right through me - they've got X-ray vision. Little dousing rods.

I'm sure it's something as subtle as the little peach fuzz on the back of their necks standing up.

I'm pretty bad with kids, starting from when I was a kid. I've always been better with adults, and now that I am an adult, I'm better at conversing with those who are much older than I am.